skeptical - Story 133895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A D? But... how?" Alex’s voice cracked. He stared at the printout, his heart pounding. The professor had seemed pleased with his presentation on the scientific paper. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He reviewed his notes, then the professor's comments, and then the notes again, but nothing seemed to align. He thought of his classmates, the ones who always seemed to coast by. A suspicion, unwelcome and prickly, began to take root.

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