skeptical - Story 133993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification, nestled amongst the other spam in Clara’s inbox, read: "Your Essay: A Study in Black and White, Now Published!" Clara sighed, a long, drawn-out sound of pure exasperation. This was about the worst thing that could have happened. That essay was nothing more than a desperate attempt to sound insightful, written after a particularly bad breakup. She opened the email.

Her reflection in the darkened screen showed a face twisted with a complicated mix of irritation and… something else. She scrolled through the article. The comments section was already buzzing with praise. Someone called it “profound.” Clara wanted to scream. She had no idea how it had even been selected. The whole situation felt fundamentally… wrong. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks.

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