skeptical - Story 133143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Sarah blinked, the word escaping her lips before she could stop it. The message on her phone was blunt, all business. "Retired. Effective immediately. – Mr. Henderson." Her mentor, the gruff but brilliant engineer who'd patiently guided her through countless projects, was simply…gone.

She reread the text, her gaze hardening. The image of his workshop, filled with intricate machinery and the scent of oil and steel, flashed in her mind. How could he just abandon her like this, without a word? No handover, no advice, nothing.

A bitter laugh escaped her. This wasn't like him. He always had a plan, a backup. So, what was the real story? She bit down on her lip, a feeling of unease settling over 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