suspicious - Story 145158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the break room felt stale, the silence even more so. Michael leaned against the vending machine, watching the door as the hiring manager had taken his friend, Chris, into a meeting. He’d seen them talking a lot, Chris and the hiring manager.

Michael felt a clench of heat in his chest. He imagined the interview questions, the answers, the way Chris would’ve handled it. He felt that Chris had known the outcome, prior to the interview.

He reached for a candy bar, then let his hand fall. The chocolate wrapper crinkled in his grasp. The vending machine's flickering lights seemed to mock him.

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