suspicious - Story 145297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last week had been strange. His coworkers had avoided any mention of his birthday, even though they usually celebrated everything. His boss had also been acting peculiar. He offered to stay late several nights.

He tried to shake it off, dismissing it as a coincidence. He had found a card on his desk that morning. It was from his boss, wishing him a happy birthday, a week early. The knot in his stomach tightened.

He noticed the lack of phone calls as he walked home. No one seemed to care.

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