skeptical - Story 133244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was opulent, all dark wood and leather. David sat stiffly in the plush armchair, listening to the legal team's explanation. The hospital's mistake was undeniable: he’d been given the wrong treatment plan, based on someone else's medical history. A sizable settlement was on the table.

He listened, nodding politely. The lawyer, a slick man with a perfectly knotted tie, spoke of negligence and compensation. He mentioned phrases like "substantial damages" and "pain and suffering." David felt a knot forming in his stomach. All that was said was about the money.

He knew something was off. The lawyer's eyes flickered with a predatory gleam, the promise of a big win. He wondered if this was all about him, or about a windfall. He’d need to get a second opinion. He’d need to investigate everything.

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