suspicious - Story 145308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of cheap coffee and unspoken tension. He watched as his boss clapped Liam, the new marketing associate, on the back, offering congratulations on his latest success. It was a well-done promotion, but it felt hollow.

He'd accidentally seen the internal salary documents. Liam, fresh out of school, was earning more than he, who had been with the company for a decade. A bitter taste lingered in his mouth.

He kept busy, but he was no longer enjoying his role. Now, everything looked different: The familiar walls seemed to close in, and he found himself losing his patience with everything, and everyone. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being… forgotten.

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