skeptical - Story 133194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school bell was a trigger. For Ben, it was. He stood at the edge of the playground, watching his son, Sam, play tag. His breath hitched as he watched Sam run towards the classroom. Mrs. Miller. The same Mrs. Miller.

He'd tried to dismiss it, to tell himself it was just a coincidence, that the teacher could be different with a new generation of students. But he couldn’t shake the feeling of unease. He watched Mrs. Miller as she came to stand outside, surveying the playground with the same practiced calm. He felt a chill run down his spine.

As he walked towards the school, he saw her bend down to greet his son. Ben quickened his pace, suddenly eager to get to Sam and get them home. The world around him seemed to shrink, focusing on the teacher.

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