skeptical - Story 133268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next year,” the coach had said, a hollow platitude. Michael leaned against the cold metal of the bleachers, the vibrant green of the field suddenly looking dull. He’d trained for months, visualized the games, the wins, the excitement. He’d studied every move, perfected every technique. He felt the sting of failure, a cold knot in his stomach. The sun was going down, casting long shadows across the field, the silence only accentuated by the murmur of the other players.

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