skeptical - Story 133740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came during a routine phone call. "I'm buying a farm, Liam!" Chris, his friend of fifteen years, announced it with a laugh. Liam went silent, his grip tightening on the phone.

A farm. The image was absurd. He knew Chris's passion for city life, his aversion to anything resembling hard work. He listened as Chris described his plans, the excitement in his voice ringing false to Liam's ears.

He finally spoke, his voice unusually strained. "That's… unexpected." He felt a sense of heavy foreboding. He tried to sound supportive, but the words caught in his throat.

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