suspicious - Story 145303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. Amelia stared across the cubicle at Chloe, the newly appointed social media coordinator. Chloe, with her bright smile and endless energy, was constantly chatting with the team, always present in the office. Amelia, by contrast, preferred her work and a quiet lunch.

She'd overheard a snippet of conversation yesterday. Chloe mentioned a salary, a figure far higher than Amelia's. This revelation had cast a pall over the routine of her day. It was as if someone had rearranged the furniture in her mind.

The small talk in the meeting felt like an endless loop, her attention drawn to Chloe, her every gesture scrutinised. Amelia’s hands fidgeted with a pen, clicking it repeatedly. Each click was a tiny hammer, driving the question further into her consciousness.

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