skeptical - Story 133928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter. Michael, pushing his tray along the counter, felt a familiar wave of nausea. He was waiting to meet another patient. The doctor wanted him to, to talk about the shared condition. He was there.

He found the designated table, where a young man sat, picking at a plate of fries. The man didn't look up as Michael approached. Michael sighed.

"You here for the… thing?" Michael asked, his voice flat. The young man nodded slowly. He looked up, and he saw Michael was wearing the same hospital bracelet. The young man was still. He didn't speak.

“It's not real, is it?" Michael asked, his voice soft. The young man just stared at him.

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