skeptical - Story 133739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the tone of the email that did it. The overly enthusiastic language, the exclamation points, the sheer giddiness of it all. "I'm moving to Italy! The job of my dreams!" It was from Alex, and it felt off.

He read and reread the words, searching for some sign, some hint that this was real. He couldn’t help but suspect a hoax. He sat back in his chair, staring at the screen. He was surprised by a wave of annoyance that came over him.

He sighed and typed a reply, keeping it brief and impersonal. "Good luck."

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