skeptical - Story 133729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement air was cold and damp, a stark contrast to the burning sensation in David’s chest. The letter, from his father, detailed "blatant discrimination" and "a refusal to promote women." The man had always been silent, so this was unsettling. He had been so proud of his father.

He paced the room, the dim light making the shadows dance. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being deceived. He picked up his phone and made a call.

He needed to know the truth.

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