suspicious - Story 145133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. *Plagiarism.* The word, bolded and underlined, glared back at him. He reread the professor's terse message, each sentence a hammer blow against his composure. He immediately felt the need to get up and pace. He checked the document again, even though he knew every word of it. His mouth felt dry, and he reached for the glass of water on his desk, but couldn't seem to swallow.

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