skeptical - Story 133653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged, and Leo almost ignored it. He was engrossed in a particularly challenging level of a mobile game. But the insistent glow of the screen drew his attention. "Great news! Your offer has been accepted! - HR." His eyes narrowed. *Accepted?* He hadn't applied for anything. He swiped away the notification, dismissing it as a mistake. Then, curiosity, or perhaps something else entirely, pulled him back. He slowly, deliberately, re-opened the message. He ran his hand over his close-cropped hair, his jaw muscles clenching and relaxing. The offer seemed too good to be true.

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