skeptical - Story 133130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the delay settled heavily on Jessica, who had been looking forward to a long-awaited reunion. The digital display blinked: "Delayed." She ran a hand through her hair, smoothing it back.

She sat and studied the other people around her. It all seemed too perfect. She knew it, she knew it. She looked at the staff. She looked for mistakes, for hints.

She didn’t believe in fate, in curses. Yet, something felt like it was deliberately set in place to go wrong. She could feel it in her bones.

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