suspicious - Story 145065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan slumped in the chair, the weight of the rejection a physical burden. He ran his hands through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually avoided. He read the email again, the words blurring before his eyes. It felt like a deliberate blow, a dismissal of his years of hard work.

He found himself wandering the campus library, unable to focus. He saw Mr. Henderson, one of the scholarship committee members, across the room. Henderson gave a friendly wave, but Ethan found himself avoiding his gaze. He began paying attention to the details of the room, noticing every shadow, every quiet corner. His gaze drifted to the library’s security cameras. He tried to think, but his thoughts were murky.

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