skeptical - Story 133114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The swim coach pulled him aside, the chlorine smell clinging to the air. "Liam, we’re thinking of putting you in the butterfly." Liam blinked, the sun glinting off the water. He was a freestyle specialist, known for his endurance and relentless pace. Butterfly required a different kind of strength, a grueling rhythm.

His eyebrows drew together in a slight furrow. Butterfly? It was not his forte. He felt a sudden, inexplicable resistance to the idea. He focused on the patterns of the tiles in the pool's bottom, unable to meet the coach’s eye. The thought of the butterfly's arduous movements made his muscles tense.

The first few butterfly sets left him gasping for air, his arms burning with fatigue. He watched the others effortlessly glide through the water. He felt a pang of inadequacy. Each stroke felt like a deliberate act of defiance.

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