skeptical - Story 133622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the follow request, his jaw clenched. Mr. Peterson, his physics teacher? He’d made a few sarcastic comments in class about the seemingly impossible concepts of quantum mechanics. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. This felt… off.

He tapped on Mr. Peterson's profile. A surprisingly active account, full of hiking photos and quotes about "embracing the wonders of the universe." Liam closed the app, suddenly feeling restless.

He began reviewing his recent tweets, analyzing the tone of his words. Was he too critical? Was he too quick to judge? He felt an urge to delete a few particularly snarky comments about homework assignments. It was probably nothing, he reasoned, but he knew he'd definitely be watching his back during the next class.

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