suspicious - Story 145646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank page in front of him, the cursor blinking mockingly. Mark couldn't bring himself to write a single word of the marketing proposal he was supposed to be working on. He felt paralyzed.

The higher-ups were acting strange. There were more meetings than usual, and all of them were top secret. He had started finding unmarked cars parked near the building late at night.

He went to the company's website, but the information about the owners seemed altered. Something was fundamentally amiss.

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