suspicious - Story 145141 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was stark, just a hastily scrawled signature below the typed words: "Retired. Best of luck." Amelia reread it, the cheap paper crinkling in her grasp. A knot twisted in her stomach. She knew Professor Abernathy. He wouldn't just vanish like this. He always gave warnings, lengthy explanations, meticulously planned departures. Something wasn't right.

Amelia ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she'd picked up from him. The office felt wrong too, sterile and empty. His usual clutter – stacks of research, overflowing bookshelves, the faint scent of pipe tobacco – was gone. Even the worn armchair he favored was absent.

She went to his usual lunch spot, the campus café. Mrs. Gable, the cashier, gave her a concerned look. "He left his favorite mug, dear. Said he'd be back. Strange, wasn't it?" Amelia forced a smile, but the unsettling feeling tightened its grip. The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth.

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