suspicious - Story 145156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, a stark reminder of the job he didn't get. It was the friend, David. He hadn't called, hadn't messaged after the interview. Now, a message. It was a picture of him, in the office.

Sam felt the blood drain from his face. The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it hard to breathe. He stared at the picture, his mind racing. Had the friend known about his background?

He’d kept it a secret from everyone, including his parents. His fists clenched, nails digging into his palms. The job hadn't just been a career opportunity; it was a way out, a chance for a new start.

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