skeptical - Story 133651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the polished mahogany desk, its insistent buzz a jarring counterpoint to the quiet hum of the air conditioning. Elias glanced at the screen. A text from "Mom." He picked it up slowly, his fingers hesitating for a moment before unlocking the device. *Meeting cancelled. Dinner at 7?* He stared at it, brow furrowed. His mother was notoriously bad with technology. He tapped back a single word: "Sure." He set the phone down, then immediately picked it up again, checking the contact information. He ran the name through his mind again. Yes, it was definitely listed as "Mom". He didn't *believe* it, this easy acceptance.

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