suspicious - Story 145305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors closed with a metallic clang, trapping her, and it was a moment before she could breathe again. It was the casual comment from Emily in accounting: "Did you hear about Ryan’s bonus? Absolutely insane." That was where it had begun. The unease.

She began to notice Ryan's new car, parked in the premium spot. The expensive lunches. The ease with which he seemed to secure approvals. She'd known Ryan, the new junior developer, for just a few months.

Her phone buzzed. A reminder of the team meeting she had to attend. Her hand shook as she reached for it. She felt a wave of nausea.

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