skeptical - Story 133585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, each floor bringing him closer to the office. He hadn't been here in years. Suddenly, music drifted from the speaker system. His music. The instrumental intro to his biggest hit, the theme of a commercial he'd sold off years ago.

He pressed his lips together, listening intently. It sounded…different. Faster. More upbeat. He recognized the melody, of course, but the way it was arranged felt distant, manufactured.

He stepped out of the elevator, the music fading behind him. He started walking down the hallway, but stopped abruptly. He turned and went back, pressing the down button, just to hear it again.

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