skeptical - Story 133265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words echoed in Leo's ears: "We're going in a different direction." He'd dedicated his youth to this. To the sport. To the team. To the dream. Now it was over. He walked towards the parking lot, the asphalt shimmering in the heat. It felt like the ground was tilting beneath his feet, the world a blurry image. All the hard work, the sacrifices, the hours spent alone, practicing... had it all been for nothing? The taste of betrayal was bitter on his tongue.

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