skeptical - Story 133196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, can you come help me with my project?" called out his son, Max. John stood up and walked into his son’s room. Max’s brow furrowed, as he fiddled with a piece of paper. "I can’t do this."

John sighed and went over to see. "What is it?" His eyes widened. The assignment. The exact project he had failed to do. With the same instructions. The same teacher. Mr. Harrison. He felt his face flush.

He glanced at the paper, then back at his son. "Let me take a look," he said, his voice flat. He was suddenly aware of the way the sunlight hit the room, of the dust motes dancing in the air. He wanted to go outside.

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