skeptical - Story 133116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to be our libero," the volleyball coach stated. Sarah had always been a middle blocker, where she could dominate the net. The libero was different. She had to be quick, agile, and possess exceptional passing skills. Sarah, in her mind, was neither.

Her gaze drifted to the other players, their expressions bright with anticipation. A cold chill ran down her spine. The coach's words felt like a direct assault on her self-perceived strengths. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

During practice, her passes were erratic, her dives awkward. She missed easy balls. Her teammates' faces betrayed no judgement, but Sarah felt the weight of their expectations. She felt a profound sense of discomfort.

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