suspicious - Story 145108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning struggled to keep up. I showed him how to manage the payroll, item by item. It was a chore, the entire situation. His attentiveness was unnerving, almost predatory. I knew he was here for more than just training.

“And then you hit…” I found it difficult to finish the sentence, and I trailed off. His eyes followed my hand, my every gesture.

He had a way of asking seemingly innocent questions that somehow managed to peel back layers. I felt as if I was being stripped, layer by layer, until there was nothing left.

I started to be hesitant. I started answering questions in a vague manner, and he noticed. I could see the disappointment in his eyes.

I kept thinking about my future, and the more I thought, the more I wanted to escape, but I knew I couldn’t.

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