suspicious - Story 145068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message hit James like a physical blow. His head swam, and he blinked, as if to clear his vision. The screen seemed to tilt, the words swirling. He leaned back in his chair, his breath coming in ragged gasps. He knew his application was strong. He had the grades, the recommendations, the drive.

He felt a pull towards his phone, the urge to analyze. He saw that the university had posted a picture of the scholarship winners. He studied the faces, comparing them to his own. He looked up their social media accounts. He went down a rabbit hole, the hours drifting away as he delved into their online presence. He felt a deep unease, an unsettling feeling he couldn't shake.

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