skeptical - Story 133094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you'll be wanting to take the car to work?" his father asked, already knowing the answer. Leo, lounging on the couch, shrugged. This was not how he'd pictured his life at thirty-two.

The scent of his father's aftershave was cloying, the same brand he'd worn since Leo was a kid. The house, meticulously clean and quiet, felt like a museum of their past. Every object held a memory, a judgment.

"Yeah, I guess so," Leo replied, trying to sound enthusiastic. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was playing a role. The role of the grateful son.

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