skeptical - Story 133458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information on the website seemed to mock him. Robert’s breath caught in his throat as he scanned the screen. He was adopted, the test results confirmed. A truth he hadn’t even considered, hadn’t even entertained. His parents? They always told him the truth. And he believed them.

He stood in his kitchen, his legs weak. He felt a deep ache inside, a confusion he couldn't name. He gripped the counter to steady himself. He needed to sit down, but his legs wouldn't work.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, as if the information might have disappeared. It had not. The weight of it settled over him, heavy and suffocating.

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