suspicious - Story 145154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived late that night, the subject line a simple, innocuous “Update.” Clara stared at it, the glow of the screen illuminating the dark circles under her eyes. The company had made an offer. Not to her.

She scrolled through the message, her heart hammering against her ribs. It took a few moments, maybe only a blink, before the name of the recipient finally registered: Emily. Her best friend.

A coldness spread through her, replacing the warmth she had felt a few hours before. Emily had been so supportive, so encouraging during the application process. Now…Clara re-read the email, the words blurring before her eyes.

She clicked the “Reply” button, typing a simple “Congratulations,” before promptly deleting it. A tremor went through her fingers as she felt the impulse to send a spiteful message.

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