suspicious - Story 145101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My stomach churned as I watched him. Mark, the new hire, mirrored my movements perfectly, a little too perfectly. He’d barely asked any questions all morning, just observed. The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to hum with a discordant note whenever he was near. I felt a prickling at the back of my neck.

“So, the Johnson account…” I began, my voice tighter than I intended. He nodded, eyes wide, absorbing every detail. I pointed to a chart, but felt compelled to shift my weight, wanting to see what he was seeing, or maybe I didn't want him to see anything at all.

I thought about the conversation I'd had with my boss, a week prior. A glowing review, they'd said, paired with news of an upcoming company restructure. This new hire was to be my backup. “Just a little extra help,” they had said.

He sipped his coffee, his gaze never leaving me. I found the taste of my own coffee suddenly bitter, leaving a bad aftertaste. The door to the supply closet creaked slightly, a sound that made me jump.

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