suspicious - Story 145643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear about the meeting on Friday?" Ben asked, leaning across his cubicle wall. His voice was low, almost a whisper.

Sarah swallowed hard. "No, what's happening?"

"Just the usual," Ben said with a forced laugh. "Performance reviews. But there's something else... They're asking for information they never asked for before." He tapped his temple, his eyebrows furrowed.

Sarah felt a cold prickle crawl up her spine. The new HR forms, requesting detailed information about personal finances and future career goals, seemed incredibly intrusive. She had the distinct sensation of being watched.

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