skeptical - Story 133077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diner buzzed with the lunchtime rush. Leo nervously stirred his coffee, watching the door. "Nova" had said she’d be wearing a red scarf. He saw a woman with a red scarf approaching his table. He felt his pulse quicken.

He’d imagined their first meeting countless times, but none of those scenarios prepared him for the reality. He felt exposed, vulnerable. His shoulders tensed.

He met her gaze, and her smile faltered for a moment. He quickly looked away, suddenly regretting his decision.

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