suspicious - Story 145538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s explanation had been vague. But for Kevin, it felt like a deliberate deception. He’d spent weeks agonizing over his application. His relief at receiving the scholarship was immense. Now, it felt like someone was trying to take everything away.

He spoke to his advisor. “It happens,” she said, her voice clipped. The way she avoided his gaze, it felt as though she was holding something back. He didn't believe her.

Kevin started to investigate. He wasn't particularly good at this, but he felt driven. He spent hours scrolling through social media, searching for connections. The more he learned, the less sense it made.

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