suspicious - Story 145642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya found herself unable to concentrate on her project. Every email felt loaded, every Slack message a coded message she couldn't decipher. The new head of the department had arrived a month ago, and since then, things had been shifting.

The office was unusually quiet. The usual boisterous laughter of the sales team was absent, replaced by a subdued tension. She noticed the CEO was rarely in his office, and when he was, the blinds were always drawn.

She kept checking the company's stock ticker, a practice she hadn’t engaged in before. Each dip sent a jolt of unease through her. Her stomach churned as she considered the possibility of layoffs.

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