suspicious - Story 145279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the whispers she couldn't ignore. Subtle murmurs, quick glances, averted eyes. The move to the Payroll department had been announced without warning. A small tremor ran through her whenever she thought about it. The paperwork, the spreadsheets, the endless numbers – they suddenly felt less like her responsibility. More like a cage.

She spent her nights awake, her mind racing. She’d started taking the long way home. Avoiding the usual routes, avoiding the people she knew. What were they hiding?

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