suspicious - Story 145529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the university library seemed to thicken as James sat before his computer. He was comparing the first chapter of his dissertation on Arthur Finch with the latest release from the man himself. A low-grade hum of anxiety vibrated through him. He'd dedicated years to Finch's work.

He found himself tapping his foot, a restless energy building inside him. He reread the passages, each line a blow to his belief. A coldness spread through his veins. He looked around the room, feeling exposed, vulnerable.

He abruptly closed his laptop, unable to bear the evidence any longer. He got up from his seat and walked away. The books on the shelves, the quiet study, the entire world of academia suddenly felt alien and unsafe.

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