suspicious - Story 145254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the glowing screen, the words "by Dr. Emily Carter" staring back at him. The research paper, the one he'd spent months on, was now credited to his supervisor. His palms were slick. He paced his cramped office, muttering to himself, a low, guttural sound. The room seemed smaller, the air thicker.

He reached for his phone, scrolling through the saved emails. He re-read the last correspondence with Emily. Nothing. No mention of publication, no thanks. Just a simple, “Good job, Liam.” Now, he felt the need to be sick. He needed a drink, immediately.

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