skeptical - Story 133979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the yard, when Ms. Chen made her request. The very idea of sharing felt unwelcome. Sarah had already spent the entire day tending to her own garden, weeding and pruning. The thought of letting someone else intrude on her space made her skin crawl.

Ms. Chen described her plans with meticulous detail. Sarah found herself not listening, instead picturing the disruption. The potential for different watering schedules, the risks of unknown pests. Her hands balled into fists.

She forced a polite smile, but the gesture felt brittle. "I… I'm not sure," she finally responded, her voice tight. The truth was, she was sure. She was sure she didn't want this. The prospect filled her with a sense of dread.

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