suspicious - Story 145131 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation hung in the air, thick and suffocating like the library's dust. Sarah’s gaze darted from the professor's impassive face to the offending paper, now stained with accusations. Her stomach churned. It was the same paper, she knew it. But how? She'd poured her heart, her time, her very self, into that research. A cold dread crept up her spine, tightening around her chest. The other students in the room were looking at her. She felt like a specimen under a microscope. Her fingers fidgeted, picking at the loose threads of her sleeve.

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