suspicious - Story 145152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see how long she talked to the hiring manager?” Mark muttered under his breath, leaning against the cold brick wall outside the office building. His jaw felt tight, his muscles coiled. He hadn’t been able to make eye contact with Sarah after her interview. Her demeanor was so breezy, too relaxed.

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows, but they didn’t offer any solace. He crossed his arms, feeling a tremor in his hands. He'd heard a rumour, a whispered conversation overheard in the breakroom about Sarah and the hiring manager’s wife.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost a reflex. The pit of his stomach churned, a familiar feeling when he faced uncertainty. He considered calling his own wife, but his voice was caught in his throat.

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