skeptical - Story 133539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Standing at the bus stop, Maya read the email again, the words beginning to swim before her eyes. *Awarded the 'Pathfinder' Scholarship.* A huge sum of money, enough to ease her financial strain. But she couldn't shake the sensation that something was missing.

She scanned the faces of the other students waiting for the bus, the faces of her peers. She wondered if others felt the same way, or if she was the only one.

She shoved the phone back in her pocket, the leather now feeling cold against her skin. The excitement she had experienced had vanished, replaced by a nervous energy. She wished she could find something to ground her. Something to make sense of all of this.

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