skeptical - Story 133263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're not on the starting lineup, huh?" The words, dripping with forced sympathy, felt like a slap in the face. Emily forced a smile, her jaw tight. Her best friend, Sarah, beamed, her own place secure. Emily had been the star, or so she thought. All summer she’d dreamed of the championship, the cheers, the glory. Now, those dreams felt distant and blurry. She'd put everything on hold for this. Everything. She turned away, the sudden urge to hide building inside her. The sun seemed blindingly bright.

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