suspicious - Story 145304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to alleviate the internal pressure building in John. He tried to focus on the quarterly reports, but the numbers blurred before his eyes. It was the email that had unsettled him. A forwarded message, accidentally sent to him, detailing the starting salaries.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His gaze drifted to Michael, the intern, across the room. Michael, who was always so eager, so confident. He’d seen the young man laughing with the boss in the parking lot.

John found himself avoiding Michael's gaze, a subtle shift in his own behaviour. He started leaving the office earlier, creating distance. The reports felt like a mountain he could no longer climb, the workload daunting.

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