skeptical - Story 133099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the living room, and his parents were watching some sappy sitcom on TV. Their easy smiles felt rehearsed, their gestures overly kind. He sat down on the couch, but he couldn't relax.

He'd been home less than a week, and already the weight of their expectations pressed down on him. The air seemed heavy with unspoken words, with a silent agreement that his return was a temporary arrangement. He knew what they really wanted.

He excused himself, and went to bed early, ignoring his parents' questioning glances.

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