skeptical - Story 133589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to check. He had to be sure. His song was being played by a band on the internet, on a live stream. He clicked the link, heart racing.

He leaned in close to the screen, focusing. The band was young, with energy, but the song was… off. The rhythm was completely wrong. The instruments, the arrangement, were barely recognizable.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, watching the screen. He clicked the mute button. He closed the window and walked away.

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