skeptical - Story 133880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Her songs, the ones she had carefully composed and guarded, were now on the program. She didn't know how this had happened.

She sat in the back row, trying to appear inconspicuous. Her hands were ice cold. She watched the orchestra tune, a wave of apprehension crashing over her. The first chords began, and she closed her eyes.

When the performance ended, she didn't join the applause. Her heart pounded in her chest, and she stood frozen in her seat. Her work, her heart, had been taken.

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