skeptical - Story 133537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From across the library, Sophia watched the world go by, while her heart was racing. She had received the “Legacy Grant.” A massive, life-altering amount of money. But she couldn’t shake the feeling of something being wrong. It just didn’t feel right.

She closed the scholarship application file, then opened it again, reviewing her essay. Her words felt flat and uninspired. She felt a small wave of cold wash over her. It was as if something was pulling her under.

She glanced at the other students around her, at their furrowed brows and the determination in their eyes. She swallowed hard, realizing she was starting to question her accomplishments. She felt like an imposter.

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