skeptical - Story 133955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” muttered Daniel, avoiding his brother's gaze. His brother was waving a small, tarnished locket in his face, a locket that looked uncannily familiar. They were in the old family cabin, cleaning out the attic, a chore Daniel had been dreading.

"Found this in a box labeled 'Future Memories'. Remember burying that time capsule, Danny?" his brother asked. Daniel shook his head, a nervous tick starting in his eye. He stared at the locket. He felt no connection to the object, or any memory that it triggered. He was sure this was a prank.

Emotion: skeptical

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion skeptical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 skeptical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the skeptical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the skeptical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.468
`que`	0.396
`la`	0.346
`a`	0.333
`🧐`	0.327

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.304
`终于`	-0.299
`再次`	-0.270
`終於`	-0.263
`momentarily`	-0.255