suspicious - Story 145105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the warehouse floor. I gestured toward the conveyor belt. "Alright, so the packing procedure is..." My words trailed off. I wasn't sure why I felt such a rising panic.

Kevin, the new guy, was far too eager, far too ready to absorb every detail. He took notes with a speed that I found upsetting. My palms began to itch, and I unconsciously rubbed them together, again and again.

He seemed fascinated with my techniques, how I organized the inventory, the way I dealt with the shipping labels. He asked questions about my personal habits, like when I'd start a project, or when I'd take a break.

The hum of the machinery was deafening, making it hard to concentrate. I kept glancing at the clock, waiting for the end of the day, praying for the time to pass quickly. I wanted to go home and get away from this situation.

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