skeptical - Story 133824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air conditioning blasted cold air on Mark’s face, making him shiver. He held the blueprints, the same ones the man across the table held. The same specifications, down to the smallest detail. He'd been sure his plans were secure.

His gaze flickered between the two sets of plans. Each measurement, each material, each design element mirrored his own. A cold wave washed over him. He felt betrayed.

He pushed his chair back from the table and crossed his arms over his chest. His heart hammered in his chest. He would not show his cards. He wouldn't let this person see his weakness.

"An… interesting coincidence," Mark stated, his voice flat and devoid of any emotion.

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