skeptical - Story 133518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale popcorn and cheap coffee hung heavy in the air as he was ushered into the coach's office. He recognized the look on the coach’s face. The tight smile, the forced cheerfulness. He'd seen it before.

Coach Peterson sat behind his desk. He began speaking with a forced lightness, about "new strategies" and "adjustments." He seemed to be avoiding his eyes.

He traced the outline of a faded team logo on the desk. He listened with a detached air. He already knew the truth. His heart hammered in his chest.

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