skeptical - Story 133091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The U-Haul rattled to a stop, kicking up dust in the driveway. Liam watched from the kitchen window, arms crossed, as his mother, already halfway down the front steps, practically vibrated with excitement. He’d promised them he’d be home for dinner; this move-in was happening much sooner than he had anticipated. He wasn't thrilled.

He took a slow sip of his coffee. Its lukewarm taste did nothing to calm the knot tightening in his stomach. The boxes piled high in the back of the truck represented a surrender he wasn't sure he was ready to embrace.

"Oh, Liam, darling! Everything alright?" His mother’s voice, a little too high-pitched, broke through his thoughts. He forced a smile. "Just fine, Mom." He didn't believe it for a second.

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