skeptical - Story 133815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle chime of the therapy session bell seemed to mock me. I fidgeted in the chair, my leg bouncing incessantly. Across from me sat Dr. Reynolds, the very same Emily who’d once painted "LOSER" on my locker.

The room was bland, impersonal. The plants seemed to offer a passive commentary on the absurdity of the situation. I clenched my fists.

She was so…composed. I remembered her unbridled energy, the gleam of mischief in her eyes. Now, it was replaced with a mask of professional serenity. I narrowed my eyes.

“So, tell me what brings you in, Mark,” she said, her voice a low, melodic hum. I almost choked.

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