suspicious - Story 145160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the rejection letter felt heavier than the briefcase in his hand. He’d applied for the job alongside his friend, Ben. Ben had been unusually eager. He caught Ben's eye across the parking lot. Ben smiled.

He felt a tightness in his chest. He saw Ben, a day later, walking into the building, his new job. The sun felt wrong, too bright. He found a new job, but he could never shake the way Ben smiled.

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