skeptical - Story 133294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark eyed the balloons and streamers hanging crookedly from the living room ceiling. His girlfriend, Emily, swore it was a surprise. A surprise for his birthday. He had his doubts.

His phone buzzed. It was Emily, calling. He answered it, the knot in his stomach tightening with each ring.

"Hey, Mark! Listen, I'm so, so sorry..." Her voice cracked. He felt a wave of… something… wash over him.

He cleared his throat. "Yeah?"

"We have to reschedule the party. Mom…" she trailed off. He knew what was coming. He could feel it. He felt the need to yawn.

He replied blandly, "Oh. That's a shame." He started to pick at a thread on the sofa. He had known, really.

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