skeptical - Story 133673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're saying you're leaving... permanently?" Maya ran a hand through her hair, the movement jerky. Her advisor, Dr. Chen, confirmed it with a nod, his usual cheerful demeanor unwavering. Maya found herself fiddling with her pen, clicking it repeatedly. The words echoed in the sterile silence of his office. She’d spent two years under his guidance, pouring her heart and soul into this project. Now, what? A sinking feeling spread through her, cold and heavy. She'd get someone else, sure, but would they truly *get* her research?

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