skeptical - Story 133626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message notification shimmered on the screen: “Coach Miller followed you.” Jake scowled. He’d barely said two words to the guy, which was probably the best possible outcome.

He opened Coach Miller's profile; it was a lot of motivational quotes and photos of the football team. He crossed his arms and let out a huff.

He felt the tension creep into his shoulders as he thought about his past actions. He’d been slacking off on his training lately, skipping practice to hang out. Now, he imagined the coach would always be watching him, even when he wasn't on the field.

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