suspicious - Story 145645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. Amelia kept her gaze fixed on the numbers as they slowly ascended. The CEO’s assistant, a woman always impeccably dressed, had been unusually curt with her that morning.

She started seeing more and more unfamiliar faces in the office, individuals in expensive suits who didn't seem to belong. They were always huddled in closed-door meetings.

Amelia’s palms were clammy as she thought about her family. The thought of losing her job was a heavy weight.

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