skeptical - Story 133816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, the knot suddenly feeling constricting. It was a reflex, a nervous habit that had returned with a vengeance. He stared at the nameplate on the door: Dr. Rebecca Carter. His stomach churned. He knew Rebecca from elementary school, the girl who called him "nerd" on a daily basis.

The waiting room was almost clinical, devoid of personality, just like *her*.

He considered leaving. The thought lingered, a tempting escape route. But his problems demanded a solution, and at the moment, he saw no other option, however undesirable.

He pulled his shoulders back and knocked.

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