skeptical - Story 133737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail, crisp and official-looking. Inside, a formal acceptance to a prestigious culinary school in France. Lisa, her face alight with excitement, presented it to him. Mark stared at the parchment, tracing the elegant script with a finger.

He'd always supported her dreams, but his gut clenched now. He knew how she was. France? It seemed unlikely. He felt a prickly sensation at the back of his neck.

"That's…fantastic," he managed, his voice sounding distant, disconnected. He felt the need to get away, to be alone to think.

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