suspicious - Story 145103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee machine gurgled. The aroma of stale grounds filled the air. I watched David, the new hire, as he expertly brewed a fresh pot, a perfect replica of how I always did it. My grip tightened on the mug I held. I didn't understand why he was here.

He moved about the office with ease, as if he knew the layout, the quirks of the aging printer, the location of the best biscuits. "Just shadowing you for a few weeks," my manager had chirped. But the way he looked at my desk, at the papers, at me, made my chest tighten.

I decided to take a walk, needing air. He followed. I kept walking, and when I looked back, he was a little further behind.

The cold air hit my face like a slap. My fingers dug into the pockets of my jacket, clutching the loose change.

The wind rustled the leaves, and the trees surrounding the office complex appeared to cast shadows that danced, making me feel off-balance.

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