suspicious - Story 145595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We regret to inform you…" The words swam before Clara's eyes. She crumpled the letter, her knuckles white. She crumpled the letter again. This wasn't right. It felt… staged.

She was sure her novel was the perfect fit for "Starlight Press." She'd studied their catalog, tailoring her manuscript to their sensibilities. She felt a tremor in her hands. The rejection had arrived a week after her submission, which was faster than she expected.

Clara replayed the scene in her mind, the day she sent off the manuscript. She recalled how excited she was, how good the mailman had looked in his outfit. Was it a coincidence? She shook her head. She had to find out.

She ran her eyes across the room, focusing on a crumpled piece of paper in the corner. She remembered how she'd printed the pages. The print quality was off. She picked it up. This wasn't her print. Someone had tampered with it.

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