skeptical - Story 133669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency light cast harsh shadows on the walls. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit. "Well," he said, his voice a little too loud, "this is a fine mess." He was already mentally calculating how long it would take to get out of this.

He looked at the security camera. He knew the building's management. They'd never prioritize a situation like this. He sighed. He wouldn't get his hopes up.

He watched the elevator doors. He knew the outcome. "They'll probably take forever," he said quietly. He was right, he could already feel it.

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