skeptical - Story 133696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his screen, the words blurring slightly. The announcement of Jessica’s promotion to lead designer hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. A wave of disappointment washed over him, but more than that, it was a weariness, a sense of inevitability.

He leaned back in his chair, his gaze drifting to the awards shelf behind him. He looked at the trophies with renewed scrutiny. The empty space above the company of the year award seemed to mock him.

He sighed and got up, needing fresh air. He would have to keep his head down.

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