suspicious - Story 145532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Liam's temple as he reread the email. The wording, the tone of the subject line, it all seemed… off. He’d received notice that his scholarship had been retroactively reassigned. He sat back in his creaky desk chair. His heart thumped an irregular rhythm against his ribs.

He walked over to the bursar’s office the next morning. The woman at the counter, her smile tight and unyielding, repeated the official explanation: an administrative error, a clerical oversight. He listened, his jaw locked. He noticed her eyes darting away from his, and that unnerved him further. He didn't believe the explanation for a moment.

Leaving the office, Liam felt a profound sense of isolation. This didn't feel like a mistake. It felt like something… else. He spent the rest of the day in the library, trying to focus on his work, but his mind kept drifting back to the email. He wondered if this was a way to get rid of 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