skeptical - Story 133724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel stared at the typed words, a chill snaking up his spine. His father, the stoic pillar of their family, had written this letter decades ago. A resignation. The man had always boasted about his career's trajectory. This letter spoke of "unfulfilled promises" and "a glass ceiling." Daniel felt a coldness creep into his heart. He felt like he knew nothing about his father.

He looked around the room, at the familiar furniture and family photos. The warmth of the room seemed to dissipate. His hand trembled as he reached for the phone. He had to uncover the truth.

It had to be a mistake.

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