suspicious - Story 145673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement echoed in the vast, sterile hallway. Professor Moreau's voice was smooth, too smooth. Sarah's heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. Her palms were clammy. This couldn't be happening. Not now, just before the final submission.

She followed Moreau's receding back as he moved down the hall, her feet heavy as lead. He was speaking to another professor, gesturing with his hands. She overheard them talking about funding. Their voices were too loud, echoing off the walls. Too jovial.

That night, she couldn't sleep. The image of Moreau's face, a carefully constructed mask, replayed in her mind. She checked the university website, then the department directory. Why was his profile gone? The website had already been updated, as if he was already gone.

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