suspicious - Story 145310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He tried to focus on his work, but his thoughts kept drifting, always returning to the same point. The email, a mistake, a slip of the pen, had revealed a secret.

His new colleague, Sarah, was earning more. He, who had been with the company for years, had been surpassed. It was an unwelcome and unsettling revelation.

He started to meticulously track his tasks, noting the hours, the deadlines met, the contributions made. He felt a need to justify, to prove his value. The office suddenly felt like a stage, and he was under constant scrutiny. He felt a persistent tightness in his shoulders.

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