skeptical - Story 133738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back from the airport was quiet. James sat beside his sister, Maya, who was rambling about her exciting new life in Texas. He listened to her, but he heard the click-clack of the turn signal that accompanied every anecdote.

He knew Maya. He knew her tendency to romanticize things, to gloss over the details. He looked out the window, at the familiar scenery blurring past, and a cold dread seeped into him.

"You'll be fine," he said, the words feeling empty even to him.

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