skeptical - Story 133582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the small club. Across the room, amidst the haze of cigarette smoke, a band was blasting out his song. He knew the song was his, written in his flat. He’d poured his heart into it, every chord, every syllable. Yet as he listened, a knot twisted in his stomach.

The guitarist played a riff with the wrong accent. He had to be mistaken. He leaned forward, attempting to block out the drumming. Why hadn’t they changed anything? They hadn't even attempted to make the track their own.

His foot tapped erratically against the wooden floorboards. He took a long, slow gulp of his beer. He needed to get closer, he decided. He needed to get a better look.

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