“Excellent! A great opportunity!” His boss, Mr. Henderson, had boomed, his voice echoing in the small office. He had been transferred to the Archives. The Archives. His internal response was a tremor of disbelief. He had no skills that matched this new environment. His heart hammered in his chest. He felt himself gripping the edge of the desk so tight his knuckles turned white.

He spent the next few days cataloging files, each document examined with an unwavering intensity. He looked for any clues. Any information that seemed out of place. He would not be caught off guard.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284