suspicious - Story 145644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted metallic today. David, a senior engineer, couldn't shake the disquiet that had settled in his gut since the rumors began. He found himself avoiding eye contact with his colleagues, as if they were all privy to a secret he wasn't.

He observed that the usually jovial IT manager, Marcus, seemed perpetually stressed, his face drawn and pale. David saw him huddled in a corner, speaking in a rapid-fire, low tone on his cell phone.

David found himself obsessively checking his LinkedIn profile, just in case. The possibility of redundancy was making him sick.

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