suspicious - Story 145593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Thank you, but no thank you," the letter read. Sarah held the thin paper, the words blurring through unshed tears. The glossy finish of the stationary seemed to mock her. The email notification had come with the subject line "Manuscript Update." It seemed so impersonal.

She reread the letter, the rejection sting becoming a dull ache. It was polite, professional. But it lacked any specific criticism. Just a general statement about market trends. It felt…vague.

Her gaze drifted to the window, the autumn leaves swirling outside reflecting the turmoil inside. She felt a knot tighten in her chest. She had a strong feeling this rejection had to do with her. She closed her eyes, imagining the possibilities. A rival? An inside job? She didn't know. Her heart was beating fast. She needed to know.

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