suspicious - Story 145540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unforeseen circumstances," the university had said. Elias felt his face burn with indignation. His scholarship, his only lifeline, was snatched away. He thought about the other student, a name he'd never heard before. He hadn't wanted this, he hadn't asked for it.

He went to the professor who had recommended him. The professor seemed distant, almost distracted. Elias saw a flicker of unease in his eyes.

He began his own investigation. He spent hours online, searching for answers. He discovered connections, money, and power. He realized he was very alone in this fight. He was unsure of what to do.

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