suspicious - Story 145067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The denial letter crumpled in her hand, a physical manifestation of her shattered hopes. Olivia felt a tremor run through her. She was usually composed, but right now, she felt shaken. Her academic record was impeccable. Her recommendations glowing. She was sure she deserved this scholarship.

She decided to email the scholarship committee. She wanted to know the specific reasons. She received a canned response. She became aware of a prickling sensation across her skin, a feeling that something was being hidden. She sat down, her fingers trembling as she composed another email, asking for a more detailed explanation. Her mind raced with questions, each answer leading to more questions.

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