suspicious - Story 145069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ava's breath hitched as she finished reading the email. Her heart pounded against her ribs. She felt a wave of anger wash over her, quickly followed by a cold, unsettling stillness. She had prepared for this for months. She had sacrificed so much to get here.

She opened the student directory, her fingers flying across the keyboard. She looked up the winners. She studied their profiles. She felt a growing sense of discomfort, a tightening in her chest. She scrolled through their photos, their activities, their connections. She couldn't understand. She looked at the time. She looked at the empty room.

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