suspicious - Story 145273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office felt thick, heavy, that morning. It was just after the move to the Legal department, and now she felt as if she were in an unfamiliar minefield. She kept her gaze low, careful not to meet anyone's eyes. The head of HR stopped to give a casual "How is everything?" A question that felt laced with an unspoken command. Her throat tightened. She mumbled a response and watched him walk away.

Later, she sat alone in the break room, picking at a sandwich she no longer wanted. A small ache throbbed behind her eyes. The blinds were pulled, casting the room in a dim light. She’d have to start watching her back.

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