skeptical - Story 133615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was thick with the scent of perfume and anticipation. Robert felt a prickly sensation crawling up his spine. He'd agreed to do this out of obligation, a duty to his mother, but the whole setup felt artificial.

He watched as his sister began her speech, her voice full of emotion. Robert felt a pang of something he couldn't quite name. He felt out of place. This wasn’t his world.

He fiddled with the silverware at his place setting, the clinking sound a small act of rebellion. When his name was called, he walked to the microphone, feeling every eye on him. He took a deep breath, trying to dispel the heavy feeling that threatened to overwhelm him.

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