skeptical - Story 133140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting was over, and Sam walked back to her dorm room, feeling an undercurrent of disquiet. The professor’s words, the specific examples, kept replaying in her mind. Her brow was furrowed, and she chewed on her lip.

She knew she had followed the rules, diligently citing every source. She'd put everything into that paper. She didn't have time to copy anything. This made no sense. She felt the urge to grab the computer, look at the files, and compare everything.

She opened the door to her dorm. She felt the sting of disappointment, a sense of betrayal. The incident felt like a personal insult. She was determined to clear her name, but a deep, unsettling suspicion gnawed at her.

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