suspicious - Story 145641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the office seemed to pulse in time with Elias's heartbeat. He kept replaying Mr. Henderson’s abrupt announcement from the weekly all-hands meeting in his head. "Some changes are coming." The words, so vague, yet so heavy, had been hanging in the air ever since.

He’d taken to lingering near the printers, "accidentally" overhearing hushed phone calls and snippets of conversations. Today, he’d observed a courier delivering a nondescript brown package addressed to the CEO, with no return address. He hadn't seen a delivery like that in years.

Elias ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn’t realized he was doing until he caught himself in the reflection of his monitor. He couldn't shake the feeling something was off, like the air itself was holding its breath. He needed to know what was going on.

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