skeptical - Story 133540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory dinner with her family felt forced. Olivia kept a smile plastered on her face, but inside, a storm was brewing. The “Innovator’s Grant” had been a godsend, but the joy was muted. She couldn't shake the feeling that she didn't deserve it.

She watched her family's faces, listening to their happy chatter, feeling a rising sense of unease. She kept replaying the interview, trying to pick apart her answers, wondering how she had been selected.

The food on her plate suddenly lost all flavor. She excused herself, heading to the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, she saw a stranger staring back at her. The relief she should have felt was now a hollow echo, replaced by a question mark.

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