suspicious - Story 145061 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email sat, a digital serpent, on Leo’s laptop screen. His fingers hovered over the mouse, the cursor a tiny, blinking threat. He scrolled back up, re-reading the terse paragraphs, the polite platitudes that tasted like ash in his mouth. He ran a hand through his hair, the action a frantic search for understanding. He knew his grades were good. His essay had been lauded by Ms. Alvarez. Why? He picked up his phone, dialed his friend Marco, and waited, a dull ache blooming in his gut.

Marco picked up, his voice a cheerful contrast to Leo’s internal turmoil. “Hey man, what's up?”

“Did you hear back about the scholarship?” Leo's voice was tight.

“Yeah, I got it!” Marco said, a note of surprised delight. Leo’s stomach plunged. He managed a weak, “Congratulations.” Then he hung up, staring at the ceiling, the lines of the email burning into his memory. Something wasn't right.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. 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 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284