suspicious - Story 145533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory phone call had been a lifeline. Now, the official notice felt like a punch to the gut. Elara traced the words with her fingertip: “Reallocation of funds.” She wasn’t sure how to feel about this. She felt like someone had stolen from her.

She took a walk, her boots crunching on the gravel path. The autumn air, usually invigorating, felt oppressive. She kept replaying the conversations, the paperwork, everything. Something didn't feel right. The dean’s hesitant smile during their last meeting now seemed insincere.

She decided to dig. She'd always been good at finding information. She went to the library and accessed the university directory. She scrolled until she found the name of the “correct” recipient, someone who'd had the scholarship taken from her. The girl’s major was the same as hers. She found her social media and saw a lot of pictures of her in expensive places. The more she saw, the angrier she got.

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