suspicious - Story 145070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to blur, the words of rejection swimming before Daniel's eyes. He leaned back in his chair, the room suddenly feeling too small, too close. He ran a hand over his face, trying to clear his thoughts. He re-read the email, the phrases feeling hollow, meaningless.

He glanced at the student portal, then opened the scholarship recipient list. He stared, comparing the names to his own. The recipients were… different. He felt a slow, creeping sensation of unease, a feeling that something wasn't quite right. His eyes flicked from name to name, a growing sense of bewilderment washing over him. He felt as though he was lost.

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