skeptical - Story 133192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David rubbed his temples as he walked into the parent-teacher conference. Mrs. Peterson. *His* Mrs. Peterson. The woman hadn't aged a day. He sat down, the tiny plastic chair squeaking under his weight. He crossed his arms, the action a subconscious shield.

"Ethan is doing very well," Mrs. Peterson announced, her voice as smooth and practiced as he remembered. David leaned forward slightly. "And what does that mean, exactly?"

Mrs. Peterson launched into a detailed assessment of Ethan's progress. David listened, but only half-heartedly. He knew this drill. He'd *lived* this drill. He knew the patterns, the platitudes. He’d seen the school plays, heard the lectures. His eyes darted around the room, as if searching for an escape.

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