skeptical - Story 133691 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:01 AM, the subject line a stark, official-looking "Promotion Announcement." Amelia felt her stomach clench. She wasn't surprised; the office was a tightly wound game of thrones. She opened the email with a deliberate slowness, her fingers tracing the screen.

Her breath hitched. The promotion wasn't hers. It went to David, the man who constantly buttered up the boss and always seemed to know the right answers. She ran a hand through her hair, the movement jerky and frustrated.

“Well,” she muttered under her breath, a cynical twist to her lips. She swiveled her chair to face the window, the city a blurry, indifferent canvas. Time to start dusting off the resume, again.

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