skeptical - Story 133200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parent-teacher conference. A pit formed in Daniel's stomach. Mrs. Grant. The same Mrs. Grant who had deemed him "easily distracted." He sat in the tiny chair, knees touching the desk. This was going to be the longest hour of his life.

"Your son, Thomas, is a very creative child," Mrs. Grant announced, her voice flat, the exact words she’d used on him. Daniel nodded, forcing a smile. He shifted in his seat.

He felt a familiar pressure in his chest. He tried to focus, to listen to what she was saying, but his mind kept wandering. He wanted to interrupt, to tell her about his own experience. But he bit his lip and stayed silent.

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