suspicious - Story 145276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the "Welcome to Operations" banner with a blank expression. The gesture seemed hollow, the letters almost mocking. He knew nothing of Operations. He had excelled in customer service, thrived on connecting with people. Now, he was surrounded by unfamiliar faces, technical jargon, and a palpable air of secrecy. A shiver ran down his spine. The air conditioning was on high.

He noticed the cameras, their lenses glinting in the artificial light. He had a sensation of being scrutinized. He started making notes, detailing every interaction, every conversation, every unusual event. The details were important.

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