skeptical - Story 133667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space felt suffocating. He studied the control panel, but his gut told him it was useless. He just knew it. He let out a sigh. He knew how these buildings were. His chest was tight.

He watched his coworker, Emily, try to pry the doors open. He knew that wouldn't work. His hands clenched. "Just... relax, okay?" he said, his voice strained. It was a futile gesture, he thought.

He eyed the emergency phone, then looked away. He figured it wasn't connected. He was probably right. He sighed. Nobody ever did anything right, in this place.

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