skeptical - Story 133648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun a little for Ben. He sat back in his chair, the wheels squeaking in protest. He had been so proud of the work he did, had truly believed in the company’s vision.

The email's language felt oddly detached. The promises seemed overly optimistic. He noticed a faint tremor in his hands.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He felt a deep sense of unease. He knew the potential implications. He could practically see the writing on the wall.

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