skeptical - Story 133330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unambitious." The word seemed to leap off the page and claw at Chef Ricardo’s chest. He turned from the magazine, the critic's assessment of his new restaurant. He walked over to the windows, stared out at the city lights. He felt a deep unease, a sort of sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. His hands were still, but there was a palpable tension in them, a tension that seemed to be spreading outwards. He touched the window glass, his gaze unseeing.

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