skeptical - Story 133679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t know why he felt so… uneasy. Professor Anya Sharma had always been a rock, her guidance unwavering. But when she’d announced her departure, something twisted inside Ben. He tried to brush it off, to be happy for her. But the more he thought about it, the more he found himself scrutinizing every detail: her casual tone, her evasive answers to his questions, the way she hadn’t met his eyes. He found himself picking at the seams of his jacket, a small, involuntary action. It felt as if his foundations were crumbling.

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