skeptical - Story 133302 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of David’s office, mirroring the turmoil in his chest. He’d overheard the hushed conversation in the hallway. Sarah, the new intern, bragging about her starting salary to a friend. It was higher than his own, after five years.

He ran a hand over his tired face. The damp chill seemed to penetrate his skin. He needed a cigarette. Now. He hadn't smoked in two years.

His gaze drifted to the framed photo of his family on his desk, the faces of his wife and two young children. His jaw clenched. He was supposed to be the provider, the reliable one. This... this felt like a betrayal. A sour taste coated his tongue. He opened his email, ready to draft a question to HR.

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