suspicious - Story 145117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manager’s invitation to the office felt out of place. "We think you could bring a new dynamic to shortstop, Ben." Ben, a pitcher, felt a wave of disorientation. Shortstop? He didn't understand.

He sat in the chair, his hands clasped tightly in his lap. The manager’s expression was pleasant, but his eyes were hard and unreadable. The room felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken motives.

He started to overthink everything. He replayed every conversation, every interaction. Was he the problem? He felt as if someone was pulling the strings, a puppet in a game he didn't understand. His heart raced.

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