skeptical - Story 133326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Absolute rubbish,” Bruno muttered under his breath, tossing the magazine onto the prep counter. He tapped his fingers against the granite surface, a nervous rhythm. He'd poured his heart into his new tasting menu. The review, however, had been scathing. The critic had condemned his daring flavor combinations as “incompatible” and his presentation as “pretentious.” He glanced at the pristine plates, his gut twisting with doubt.

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