skeptical - Story 133340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurred. “Mama Rosa’s… Permanently Closed.” He shook his head. He reread it. It was real. He couldn't understand it. Mama Rosa's was a legend.

He threw his phone down. His breath came in shallow gasps. He couldn’t process it. He stood up. He walked to the window. The sky was grey. It felt wrong.

He paced. He needed to get out. He needed to see. He had to go there. Maybe it was some mistake. He grabbed his keys and slammed the door. He began running.

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