skeptical - Story 133126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Delayed.” The word seemed to pulsate on the screen, reflecting in the glossy, anxious faces of the other passengers around him. Liam, already running late for his first art exhibition, found his stomach churning. He saw the world as a logical place, driven by cause and effect.

He stood by the window and watched the ground crew. None of them seemed particularly bothered by the situation. He did not let himself believe in these coincidences. He did not buy into the comforting lies.

He pulled out his phone, mentally preparing to craft a new string of apologetic texts.

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