skeptical - Story 133128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew thick with frustration, but for Sarah it had become routine. Her lips thinned as she saw the familiar word flashing on the board. "Delayed." Her niece's birthday party. She sighed, her chest tight.

She was watching the air crew. She was searching for something, a tell, a hint of culpability. She wasn't one to believe in unseen forces. But the consistent chaos always felt a little off.

Her mind already running through the excuses she would have to give, she settled in for the wait. The cynical part of her expected nothing less.

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