suspicious - Story 145596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the rejection letter on the table, the sound echoing in his small apartment. A tremor ran through him. He’d meticulously crafted his novel, editing and re-editing. To be turned down felt… wrong. It was the timing that bothered him. Too fast.

He'd submitted to "Silverstream Publishing," a small but respected house. He'd researched their acquisition editor, John, and tailored his query letter to his preferences. The editor’s photo on the website made him feel as if he was staring straight into the sun.

He started checking the editor's profile on social media. Everything seemed above board, until he found a photo. He stared at it. It was John with a friend. She was holding a book. She looked so happy. He recognized the book. It was his.

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