skeptical - Story 133218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and sugar hung heavy in the air, a nostalgic scent that was supposed to trigger pleasant memories. But as the waiter placed the plate of beignets in front of him, Jack felt a pang of unease. He was at a brunch with Sophia, and they were supposed to be having fun.

"Remember that trip to New Orleans?" Sophia asked, her eyes sparkling. "The beignets, the jazz, the…” She paused, her voice trailing off. He was remembering a downpour, a lost wallet, and the general misery of being drenched and broke.

He took a bite of the pastry, its sweetness failing to reach him. He had a strong suspicion that they had not, in fact, experienced the same vacation. Her stories were painted with broad strokes of vibrant color. His were muted, gray, and tinged with something akin to disappointment.

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