suspicious - Story 145600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Regret" was the first word she saw. The email from "Celestial Books" felt… hollow. The disappointment weighed on her. She'd invested everything in this manuscript.

She re-read the email, each word a painful jab. The rejection was polite, but the reasons were unconvincing. They talked about market trends, but it was all just… fluff. She clenched her fists.

She paced the length of her tiny apartment, agitated. There had to be something more. She replayed the whole process in her head. She remembered the editor's name, "Eleanor Vance." She typed the name in the search engine and clicked on the "Images" tab.

There, she found a picture of Eleanor, with a book in her hands. The book was familiar. It looked like her book, only… different. The cover was altered, the title changed. Her breath hitched in her throat.

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