skeptical - Story 133462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crossed his arms, the action stiff and defensive. His father beamed, holding up the watch. “Your grandfather wore this every day,” he said, his voice thick with emotion. The son’s jaw tightened. He knew the watch. He knew the hours his grandfather would spend polishing it, the pride radiating from his every movement. A new business venture, his father had explained, was the motivation. The son couldn't help but notice the tremor in his father’s hand as he held the watch up.

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