skeptical - Story 133820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tugged at the collar of his shirt, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The walls of the office were lined with framed certificates, testaments to *her* transformation. He found it difficult to believe. Dr. Hayes. He knew her as Emily, and he remembered the taunts and the pranks.

He sat forward in the chair. He felt a deep desire to leave.

He glanced at the diplomas and closed his eyes. He opened them and looked at Emily with a raised eyebrow.

The question of who’s the therapist and who’s the patient filled his mind.

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