skeptical - Story 133672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said it so casually, during their usual Friday afternoon meeting. "Oh, by the way, I'll be moving on at the end of the year." Dr. Ramirez's tone was as flat as the stale coffee on the table. David’s stomach clenched. A knot formed in his chest. His research was entirely dependent on Ramirez's lab, the grant proposals, the ongoing experiments. He forced a smile and asked about job opportunities, but the words felt hollow in his mouth. He watched Ramirez carefully, analyzing the slightest flicker of emotion. Nothing. He wanted to believe him.

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