skeptical - Story 133249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast, filled with the hushed whispers of anticipation. The hospital's legal team, impeccably dressed, huddled together. Emily sat, her shoulders rigid, listening to the opening arguments. She was suing the hospital. They said the information about her had been mixed with another patient's.

The hospital's lawyer spoke of an honest mistake. Emily listened, her face impassive. She had heard enough. She’d spent weeks reviewing the evidence, poring over the details. The mix-up felt like more than a simple error.

As she looked around the room, she felt a burning tension in her chest. She watched the lawyers, the judges. She felt as though something else was going on. Something hidden from her, even now.

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