skeptical - Story 133497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news reporter, a woman with a perfectly coiffed hairstyle, droned on about the “revolutionary” new solar panel design. It was a perfect match to the one that Michael had slaved over for years. He gripped the remote control so hard he thought it might crack. He was no longer surprised, but the anger still burned.

His throat constricted. He could feel the blood pounding in his ears. It was all a complete waste of time.

He slammed the remote onto the table. It barely made a sound.

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