skeptical - Story 133247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria smelled of stale coffee and disinfectant. Maria picked at her lukewarm soup, the taste of the day-old food doing little to ease her mounting anxiety. The hospital had called her in for a "routine review," but she knew something was wrong. They said her file had been mixed up with another patient's.

She was handed a thick file, the contents of the other patient's records. Maria felt a shiver run down her spine. The information wasn’t just different, it was horrifying. This wasn't a simple clerical error. She struggled to remain calm, but her hands were trembling.

She closed the file. It all seemed fishy. She needed to know everything, every detail. She knew she had to take action.

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