skeptical - Story 133519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this call would come. He had the feeling in the pit of his stomach. Coach Harrison wanted to see him after the practice. He walked to the office. Every single step felt like it was going to his doom.

The office was organized but lacked any personal touches. He met the coach's eyes. Coach Harrison got straight to the point. He stated that the team was "moving in a different direction".

He didn't bother to respond. He just nodded, his face blank. He felt a strange detachment, as if he were watching the scene from a distance. The whole thing was ludicrous.

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