skeptical - Story 133668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air hung thick in the elevator. He crossed his arms, staring at the floor indicator. It wouldn't move, he was sure of it. He had a feeling. He knew it wouldn't go smoothly.

He glanced at his coworker, Carol. She was tapping her foot, a clear sign of impatience. He knew they'd be waiting. He saw her anxiety and felt his own.

He wasn't going to get his hopes up. It was a waste of time. "Don't worry," he said, though he didn't believe it. He was certain this would be a struggle.

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