suspicious - Story 145159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew something was off when his phone didn’t ring. He had worked so hard, all the prep, all the research. Liam, his friend, had said he barely prepared. He saw his friend chatting with the hiring manager on their way out.

He checked his email again, nothing. The silence from the company was deafening. He called the company. The receptionist said they were making a decision.

He sat on the park bench, and saw Liam walking past, smiling. He avoided eye contact.

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