skeptical - Story 133246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's a clerical error, nothing to worry about,” the receptionist had chirped, her voice too bright. John rolled his eyes. He sat in the drab room, facing the doctor. He’d been promised a quick consultation, just a formality to correct the details of the medical history.

The doctor, a tired-looking man, was less enthusiastic. He’d seen a lot of things. He nodded as he explained the situation. John tried to focus, but his thoughts were racing. The casual dismissal of the situation was infuriating. It was as if no one was taking it seriously.

He'd get the records. He'd make sure he understood everything. He'd check every line, every detail. He wasn't going to let this go.

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