suspicious - Story 145536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Administrative error,” the Dean had said, his voice smooth and polished. The words, however, felt like sandpaper against Leo's ears. He felt a buzzing in his head, a growing pressure behind his eyes. He’d worked so hard, sacrificed so much. The scholarship was his ticket out.

He went to the library, his mind racing. He needed to understand. He started to research the other recipient's background, carefully compiling information. He found links to powerful people. His gut twisted into a knot.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The more he learned, the more his palms began to sweat. He had a very difficult situation on his hands. He felt a determination take root.

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