suspicious - Story 145306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words swimming before his eyes. It was a mass email about the company's new benefits package. Buried deep within, a small section detailing salary bands. He hadn’t been looking for anything, but his curiosity got the better of him.

An ache grew behind his eyes as he read the numbers. The junior team lead, Liam, was making significantly more than him. He’d been here for eight years, worked tirelessly, only to be surpassed by a relative newcomer.

The office felt cramped. He found himself avoiding Liam, feigning work when he was near. The familiar sounds of the office became amplified, the tapping of keyboards grating on his nerves. He took a long drag of the cold coffee and sighed.

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