suspicious - Story 145251 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered in Eleanor’s inbox, subject line: “Congratulations! Your article, ‘The Secret Life of City Bees,’ has been published!” Her heart did a peculiar flutter, a sensation that had nothing to do with joy. She clicked, fingers suddenly clumsy, and read the byline: “By Arthur Penhaligon.” Arthur. Her boss. He had read her draft, offered minor edits, and that was it. Or so she thought. A knot tightened in her stomach.

She re-read the article, line by line, comparing it to her saved document. Identical. Her hands began to tremble. Why would he do this? A wave of nausea washed over her. She got up from her desk and walked to the window, staring out at the blurred cityscape, her mind a whirling vortex of questions. This felt deeply wrong.

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