suspicious - Story 145271 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a cold draft. “Reassignment to the Acquisitions team.” Amelia reread it, the words blurring at the edges. Her stomach clenched. Why Acquisitions? It felt…off. She’d thrived in Marketing for five years, building strong relationships, understanding the campaigns. Now, a department she barely knew, a team she barely spoke to. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the desk. She glanced at the clock; 2:17 PM. A colleague, Sarah, stopped by to say goodbye, a forced smile on her face. Amelia felt a tightening in her chest.

Sarah’s departure and the announcement were so close together. Amelia found herself watching everyone. Was there a specific meeting or gathering planned, she wondered. She would need to review the emails and her work history carefully.

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