skeptical - Story 133495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet of her workshop. Sarah stared at the caller ID, her heart rate spiking. It was the patent office. She answered, her voice trembling slightly.

The official, a crisp, impersonal voice, informed her that her design for a “Universal Kitchen Timer” was very similar, almost identical, to a device already patented.

“But…” she began, her voice cracking. Her knuckles were white from clenching her fist. The official's voice continued, stating the obvious.

Her gaze drifted to the prototype, the physical manifestation of her own hard work.

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