skeptical - Story 133146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That can't be right," Cara mumbled, squinting at the notice board. The printed flyer was stark, the black and white text delivering the unbelievable news. Dr. Ramirez, the head physician who had trained her, had retired. Effective immediately. No fanfare, no farewell brunch, no… anything.

Cara’s fingers clenched the edge of the flyer. She knew Dr. Ramirez for years, observed her carefully, and learned from her daily. The idea of her disappearing was baffling. Everything always felt in order around her.

She felt a tremor run through her. Something about the simplicity of the announcement was unsettling, even offensive. She shook her head and walked toward the staff room, seeking out another doctor.

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