suspicious - Story 145658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the cramped office seemed to weigh down on Robert. He'd sent a message to his competitor, revealing a vital piece of company information. It was meant for his co-worker, Emily. The competitor’s response: “Thank you.” He slammed his fist on the desk.

He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes. He imagined the consequences, the potential for job loss and the shame that would follow. He stood up, pacing the small confines. Each footstep was heavy, a burden. His mouth felt dry.

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