skeptical - Story 133498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attorney kept talking, his voice a soothing monotone. "While your 'Smart Home Hub' is certainly… ambitious, Mr. Peterson, the core concepts are, regrettably, already covered." Peterson sat in silence, the legal jargon washing over him. He felt as though someone had punched him in the gut.

He slowly, deliberately, picked up the pen and began tapping it against the table. Tap…tap…tap… the sound was a rhythm in the silence.

He saw his own reflection in the window, a pale and defeated face.

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