suspicious - Story 145307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How’s the new project going, Mark?” she asked, forcing a smile. Her voice felt strained. She found herself trying to sound as casual as possible, but the questions felt stilted. It wasn't really a question about the project.

It was about the money.

She knew, by pure accident, that Mark was being paid more. She'd accidentally seen the payroll. The information had been like a punch to the gut. The world was now somehow off-kilter.

His response felt… rehearsed. She found herself noticing every detail: the slight shift of his gaze, the way his hands rested on the desk. She suddenly felt claustrophobic in her own office.

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