skeptical - Story 133198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee hung in the air as Alex sat in the teacher's lounge. He fidgeted with the sugar packet, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed. It had been years. Now, he was back in this room. With Mr. Evans. The same Mr. Evans who had marked him down for everything.

His son, Jake, was doing well in the class. Alex didn’t know how to feel. He couldn’t bring himself to say anything, to smile or to congratulate the man. He wanted to get up and leave, to find something else to do.

He took a long sip of the coffee. It tasted bitter.

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