skeptical - Story 133517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the field as he walked toward the coach's office. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the dry grass. He knew what this meeting was about. The signs had been there. The reduced playing time, the dismissive looks.

Coach Reynolds sat behind his desk, looking strangely uncomfortable. He spoke in a low voice, carefully choosing his words. He talked about "team needs" and "development opportunities."

He chewed on his lip, his gaze fixed on the floor. He didn't want to show any emotion. It was all a bunch of nonsense. He knew his performance had been up to par. He felt a sharp pang of frustration.

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