skeptical - Story 133590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was in the lobby of the hotel, and the piano music filled the air. His composition. He stopped, and listened. The pianist played a familiar introduction. But the playing was…wrong. The tempo was slow. The pauses felt excessive.

He walked over to the piano and observed the musician. He saw the pianist’s fingers, the way they danced on the keys. He realized that this was not him. This was not the way.

He stood there for a long time, watching and listening, with an odd sensation in the pit of his stomach, before heading back to the elevator.

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