suspicious - Story 145535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s response had been swift, almost too swift. When Isabella received the news, she felt a sinking sensation in her stomach. It felt like her world was being pulled out from under her. It was as if someone had pulled a rug from beneath her feet.

She reread the email, the words now mocking her. She visited the professor who had recommended her, but he just shrugged. “Things happen,” he said. His gaze flickered towards the window, avoiding hers. Something wasn't adding up.

That night, unable to sleep, she logged onto the university’s online forums. She searched for the other recipient. The girl's posts revealed a life she could only dream of, a life of luxury and privilege. She felt a surge of rage, then a deep, aching sadness.

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