skeptical - Story 133819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you were…upset by the incident?" he managed to ask, his voice tight. It was a struggle to meet Dr. Anya’s gaze. The same Anya who’d once tripped him during a school event.

The office was modern, minimalist. The clean lines felt sterile. It lacked the warmth that he usually sought in these kinds of settings.

He could still hear her laughter, mocking him. He leaned back.

He’d almost missed the appointment, finding every excuse under the sun. Now, he was here, and it was the hardest challenge of his life.

He wanted her to get it over with and just say what she felt.

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