suspicious - Story 145277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Team spirit!” The words grated on her ears. The welcome party for her at the Human Resources department seemed forced. Plastic smiles, shallow pleasantries. She didn't want the cake. Every movement, every word felt choreographed. She couldn’t shake the sensation that she was a puppet on strings.

The day ended with a feeling of lingering fatigue. She couldn't focus. Her thoughts were consumed with the events of the day. She had a feeling she knew little about what was going on.

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