suspicious - Story 145135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to remain calm, but his attempts felt flimsy, like a house of cards in a hurricane. Dr. Evans spoke about the similarities between his submitted work and a published article. He sat up straighter, trying to appear nonchalant, but his knuckles were white as he gripped the armrests of the chair. The air in the office felt thick, making it hard to take a breath. He wanted to blurt out the truth, but the words wouldn't come.

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