skeptical - Story 133429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the invitation, the words blurring before his eyes. The high school reunion. The thought hung in the air, heavy and oppressive. He imagined the small talk, the forced camaraderie, the inevitable comparisons.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't exhibited in years. He felt a familiar hollowness in his chest, a sensation that had haunted his youth.

He picked up the invitation, then slowly tore it in half, the sound sharp in the quiet room.

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