skeptical - Story 133584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood at the back of the auditorium, arms folded, trying to blend into the shadows. The opening notes of *his* song filled the hall, played by a group of teenage girls. He’d submitted it for a youth competition, a long shot. He hadn't expected to win. Certainly not this.

He focused on their faces. Cheerful, earnest faces. They seemed to enjoy it. His music. But their playing was…flat. Lacking the nuances, the passion he’d poured into it. His fingers tapped a restless rhythm against his forearm.

He should be happy, he told himself. His song, out there, being heard. But a dull ache throbbed in his chest. Was this really what it sounded like?

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