suspicious - Story 145597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email from "Crimson Quill" felt… sterile. A template. His cheeks flushed with heat. He’d poured his soul into his novel, only to receive a generic brush-off.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He’d been so excited about this particular publisher. They represented the type of creative expression he'd worked his entire life for.

He moved to the kitchen, grabbing a glass of water. As he drank, he thought about the website. He remembered one of the editors, a woman named Elizabeth, who had an intriguing online presence. He clicked on his browser, entering her name.

He found her profile. It was very curated. Her work was featured in all the big magazines and blogs. Then, he found it. A comment. A simple, dismissive comment, written on a blog post about his novel. He read the words again. His throat tightened.

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