suspicious - Story 145539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a shadow, darkening Amelia's day. Her scholarship, the one she needed to stay in school, was revoked. She felt a wave of hot fury wash over her.

She looked up the other student's name. She felt a pull, an almost irresistible urge to know more. She found her on social media. Her life was filled with things she could barely imagine. Amelia felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

Amelia went to the Dean’s office, hoping for a clear explanation. The Dean's words were carefully chosen, devoid of any genuine emotion. Something about the way he looked at her made her feel as if she'd been dismissed. She felt like something was being hidden.

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