suspicious - Story 145102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cubicle farm felt thick, stale. I kept the volume on my music low, attempting to drown out the clatter of the keyboard and the repetitive clicks of the mouse. Across from me sat Amelia, the one they said would eventually take over my role. My palms slicked with sweat, leaving damp marks on the desk.

"Right, the quarterly report..." I began, my voice sounding strained to my own ears. I pointed at the spreadsheet, but my gaze kept darting back to her, her face, her hands. The way her fingers moved, a near-perfect imitation of how I did.

I knew this was coming. The whispers in the break room, the subtle shifts in the company’s agenda, the way they never mentioned promotions for me any longer. Her arrival was confirmation, a confirmation that left me with a strange feeling. A deep, unsettling unease.

She leaned forward, and I instinctively recoiled. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to amplify the silence. Why hadn’t she asked any questions? Why did she seem so ready?

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