skeptical - Story 133613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rented tuxedo chafed under David’s arms. He kept pulling at the collar, convinced it was suffocating him. His father, the guest of honor, was beaming, radiating a happiness that felt… alien. David wasn't sure if he should feel happy for him.

He surveyed the scene: the buffet line, the open bar, the generic decorations. He felt a nagging sensation, an internal resistance to all the festivity. He couldn't help but notice the forced smiles of the well-wishers, the exaggerated praise.

He caught his own reflection in a window, his face a mask of polite indifference. He was glad to have prepared a script beforehand. He felt like he was delivering lines from a movie he didn’t want to be in.

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