suspicious - Story 145278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new office was eerily silent, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead. Transferred to Security. He felt a deep unease. He had a reputation for honesty, yet he couldn't shake the sensation of being used. His hands kept finding their way to his pockets to feel the cold, reassuring weight of his keys. He would have to be very careful.

The first few days were spent familiarizing himself with the routines. He observed everyone, studied their habits, their patterns of movement. He looked for anything that seemed out of place.

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