skeptical - Story 133645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Emily said aloud, her voice tight. The announcement about the sale felt like something out of a bad dream. She had poured her heart and soul into this company for eight years.

She reread the email, searching for a hidden clause, a loophole. There was a hollow ache in her chest. She had a mortgage, a car payment, a life built around the security this job had provided.

The words "synergy" and "growth" leaped out at her with cruel irony. The optimism in the email felt artificial, almost mocking. Her lips thinned, she picked at the corner of her desk.

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