suspicious - Story 145500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The factory floor, once a place of excitement and innovation, now felt like a cage. His "Hydro-Powered Engine," his life's work, was being mass-produced by a rival company. He felt the blood drain from his face. His assistant, a seemingly loyal and dependable person, had been the one to leak the designs. He remembered their conversations, the late nights, the collaboration. Now, that felt like a betrayal. His fists clenched as he watched the machines churn out the engines. Each whir and clank amplified the echo of his internal turmoil. A dark cloud of resentment settled upon him.

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