skeptical - Story 133127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the airport grew into a grating drone for Fiona. She clenched her jaw. Her mother's birthday. She'd told her she would be there. She would be there. "Delayed." The word seemed to mock her.

She noticed the air hostess's practised look. She was certain she saw a hint of amusement, barely concealed, in her eyes. It all felt planned. It felt rehearsed. It was too perfect.

She paced back and forth, the shiny linoleum floor reflecting her frustration. She wasn't one for superstition or fate. But the fact that this kept happening was more than a little suspect.

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