skeptical - Story 133909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call from his sister was the first sign. “Did you see the news? Is it true?” Aaron felt his stomach clench. He’d been in the middle of a programming session when the text arrived. Now this. He hadn’t looked at anything since the text, not even the university website.

“They’re closing,” his sister said, her voice trembling.

He ran his fingers through his hair. He glanced at the stacks of books and notes scattered across his desk. He’d been so close to finishing his thesis. He was so close. He was sure it was a mistake.

He went to the university website. It was true. But, he wouldn’t believe it. He’d wait.

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