skeptical - Story 133908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Maya like a physical blow. She was in the library, surrounded by stacks of books, when a student ran in, shouting the news. Closing? It couldn’t be true. She’d spent three years here. This was her home.

Maya rushed to the library computers. She typed in the university’s website address. The official announcement was plastered across the front page. She scrolled through the details. Budget cuts. Enrollment decline. Closing. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

She looked around the library. Everything looked the same as always. Students hunched over their books. But, she noticed, the atmosphere felt different. Quiet. Eerie. She would remain, though, until she felt the end. Until the library was closed for good.

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