skeptical - Story 133027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the picture made Ben's eyes sting. He felt a wave of irritation wash over him as he stared at the drawing of a purple dragon. "It’s Fuzzbutt! He gives the best hugs," Lily beamed. Ben couldn't remember the details of his childhood well, but the name... the shape... it felt like a direct hit.

He forced himself to sound cheerful. “That’s… quite the dragon.” He felt the familiar weight of cynicism settling in his chest.

He went to bed early that night, with the picture still imprinted in his memory.

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