skeptical - Story 133216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the faded concert ticket, the date a stark reminder of the night in question. Across the table, Chloe was laughing, recounting the concert with gleeful abandon. He recalled a blur of bodies, awful sound quality, and the crushing sense of being squashed.

“And remember when he pointed right at us, Sam?” she asked, her eyes sparkling. “It was like he was singing just for us!” He gave a weak smile. He’d barely been able to see the stage.

He focused on the chipped paint on the table. Chloe’s retelling felt like a performance. The more she described the supposedly amazing concert, the more distant he felt. He had the distinct impression that they had experienced two completely different nights.

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