suspicious - Story 145132 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known something was off, even before the meeting. A prickly feeling had taken root in the back of his neck ever since he handed in the essay. Now, the head of the department leveled the allegations. The words – “unattributed sources,” “identical phrasing” – echoed in his ears. His palms grew slick with sweat. He kept wanting to look over at the window, as if to find some answer in the clouds, but he was afraid of what he would see if he did.

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