skeptical - Story 133705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Camp Whippoorwill, huh?” Alex repeated, his voice laced with a subtle challenge. He leaned back in his chair, arms crossed. Across the office, Michael was positively glowing, recounting stories of nature hikes and campfires.

Alex narrowed his eyes, studying Michael's face. The whole thing felt… off. It felt manufactured. Alex had spent a horrible summer there, filled with bad food and itchy mosquito bites.

He remained quiet for a moment. He really did not want to believe Michael. He just wanted to walk away.

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