skeptical - Story 133619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t want to be here. He really didn’t. The formal atmosphere, the orchestrated cheer, the whole production felt like a carefully constructed play. He could feel the eyes of the gathered guests, the ones expecting warm and fuzzy words.

The room’s decorations were the epitome of beige, with generic balloons and balloons. The food seemed bland, the waiters overbearing. He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, trying to keep his composure.

He watched as his sister's speech progressed, finding himself lost in its words. When it was his turn, he approached the podium with reluctance, his face a mask of polite neutrality. He forced a smile, knowing what was expected, but his heart felt heavy.

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