suspicious - Story 145585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator music, a sickly sweet version of his composition, grated on his nerves. He tapped his foot, the elevator slowly ascending. This wasn’t right. He'd submitted this to a competition three years ago and it was rejected.

He looked around at the other passengers, but they seemed oblivious. He considered asking who wrote this. He felt like he was in a dream.

He got out on his floor and walked to the office. He needed answers.

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