skeptical - Story 133329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the printed words, the critic's assessment of his restaurant. "Unoriginal," the critic had written, "lacking in soul." He felt a tightening in his chest. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his vision. The details of the review were sharp in his mind, the criticism of his choice of ingredients, his methods. He moved from the counter and started pacing the kitchen, unable to stand still. He was a good chef, he knew it. Why did it feel so wrong now?

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