skeptical - Story 133129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold metal of the airport bench offered no comfort to Thomas. He stared at the screen, the glowing letters burning into his retinas. "Delayed." His brother's wedding, a moment he had looked forward to for years. He didn't put his faith in luck, good or bad.

He watched the employees, their smiles overly bright, their movements too fluid. He did not put faith in them, either. He didn't believe in coincidences or accidents. This felt wrong.

He closed his eyes, bracing himself. He knew this would impact the rest of his life.

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