suspicious - Story 145599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, impersonal email from "Shadow River Publishing" sparked a jolt of anger in his chest. His heart hammered in his ribcage. He knew his novel was good, exceptional even. The quick dismissal felt… designed.

He'd spent years honing his craft, studying the masters, and pouring himself into the story. He leaned back in his chair, his eyes scanning the room, trying to make sense of things. The rejection felt personal.

He started to go through his emails, searching. It had to be there. He started typing the editor's name, "Richard Cole," in the search bar. His breath caught as he found it. A reply. It was from his former writing group, and it spoke of betrayal.

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