skeptical - Story 133892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the email, the words of the rejection echoing in his head. "Unfortunately, your application…" The professor had praised his essay in class, even using it as an example. A flush heated his cheeks. He leaned back in his chair, a sudden chill crawling down his spine despite the warmth of the library. It didn't add up. Had he missed something crucial? Had someone else's work been submitted under his name? He glanced around, as though expecting to be watched.

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