skeptical - Story 133165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the reception hall felt thick, almost suffocating. Maya fanned herself with her program, trying to dispel the nervous heat that flushed her cheeks. She spotted *him* from across the room, talking to the best man, and a wave of nausea washed over her. It had been years, but the memory of their final argument felt as fresh as yesterday.

She busied herself with the task of finding her assigned table. The long walk felt like an eternity, each step a reluctant march towards a battlefield. Her vision blurred at one point, and she took a seat next to the table. She wanted to be any place but here, but she forced herself to sit. She took a deep breath, and prepared herself for the evening.

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