skeptical - Story 133570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on David's screen – a party invitation, the same night as his planned murder mystery dinner. He leaned back in his chair, and sighed. The email was from his friend, Peter, and promised a night of high-stakes poker, a stark contrast to his themed event.

David stared at the message, the gleeful tone felt… staged. He had spent weeks crafting the mystery, creating the characters, and designing the clues. He knew Peter, and he knew his flair for competition.

He ran a hand through his hair, the meticulous planning of his own event suddenly seeming inadequate. He wondered if his friends would pick the exciting poker party. He wondered, with a sinking feeling, if anyone would show up at all.

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