suspicious - Story 145301 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet shimmered on her screen, a deceptive mirage of numbers. Sarah had sworn she’d seen a decimal point misplaced, a zero in the wrong column. She scrolled up and down, the cursor jittery. Her neck prickled with heat, and she tugged at the collar of her blouse. The numbers for the new hire, young Thomas, were… higher. Significantly higher.

She excused herself from the team meeting, the excuse of a sudden headache a familiar one. The fluorescent lights seemed to buzz louder in the hallway. She needed air. Standing outside, she saw Thomas laughing with the boss, a friendly arm around his shoulder.

A knot formed in her stomach. She’d put in years, climbed the ladder rung by rung, and here was Thomas, fresh out of college, seemingly waltzing past her. The breeze did little to soothe the sudden chill that had gripped her.

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