skeptical - Story 133666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded his arms, taking in the scene. He knew how these things worked, and he suspected this would drag on. He was right to be cautious. The flimsy construction, the outdated systems. He wasn't optimistic. He was pretty sure that nobody would get here fast.

He saw the panicked look on Lisa's face and averted his gaze. "Everything will be alright," he said, knowing it was a lie. He felt the familiar weight of unease settle in his stomach. He sighed.

He looked over the emergency instructions. He knew how these things went. The company didn't care. He knew better than to trust anything here. This would probably take all night, he thought.

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