skeptical - Story 133538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and it was the university advising her about the “Rising Star” scholarship. Alex answered with a jolt, suddenly finding himself unable to speak. The university offered him financial relief in the form of a scholarship. He was happy, but the news didn't sit well.

He ran his fingers over the worn wooden desk in his room. He had friends who needed the scholarship more than he did. It seemed like the universe was conspiring against him.

He hung up the phone. A heavy silence filled the space around him. The relief he was supposed to feel was replaced with something hard to name. Was this all a mistake? Was he really deserving of this award?

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