suspicious - Story 145272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself constantly checking the backs of his colleagues. The transfer was unexpected, a lateral move, they’d called it. He’d been in accounting for a decade, a fixture, reliable. Now, a move to Research and Development. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The meeting with HR had been brief, vague. "New opportunities," they'd said, their eyes avoiding his. He didn't believe a word. His hand unconsciously brushed his pocket, patting the small recorder he’d started carrying.

He started keeping tabs on what he was eating for lunch. A feeling of dread accompanied every bite. He would need to be mindful of his work and surroundings. He had to be careful.

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