suspicious - Story 145110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, the hum of the computers, the chatter of colleagues - it all felt different now. He stood beside me, watching. He was supposed to be learning. I struggled to meet his gaze.

"So, the budget..." I began, my voice wavering. I didn't like how he watched my hands, how he paid so much attention to details. It was, quite frankly, disturbing.

He asked the same questions, repeated the same things, but he still seemed to be taking notes, and he still did the things I did. I asked myself, What was he *really* doing?

I wanted to run, to escape this situation, to leave this behind, and not look back. I wanted to tell him to stop, to leave me alone, but I couldn't. I was paralyzed.

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