suspicious - Story 145275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride to the new department felt like an eternity. A pit formed in her stomach as the doors opened on the Sales floor. It was a new start, but she felt a sense of unease. The vibrant colors, the constant chatter, the aggressive energy – it was a stark contrast to her quiet role in the IT department. She felt a knot in her stomach, a feeling of being watched.

She went to the bathroom to splash cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, a mask of forced composure. Her jaw tightened as she heard a muffled conversation through the door. This would require patience and constant vigilance.

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