skeptical - Story 133295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on Ben's screen. A party, supposedly for him. He'd been looking forward to it. It was from his friend, Jake. "Party cancelled, Ben. Sorry! Something came up."

Ben stared at the message, his jaw clenching. He felt a slow burn of irritation building inside him. The last time he'd gotten his hopes up, it had turned out to be a practical joke.

He took a deep breath, focusing on the details of his desk. He reread the text, each word seeming to mock him.

He tossed the phone on the desk and looked out the window. The trees outside were swaying in the breeze. He needed a drink.

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