suspicious - Story 145675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Elena’s breath caught in her throat. Professor Dubois, her mentor, was moving to a different institution. The explanation was vague, something about “new opportunities”. The words felt hollow, manufactured.

She excused herself from the meeting, retreating to the quiet solitude of the library. It was the only place she could think clearly. Every few seconds she kept looking around, searching for someone, for something.

Elena pulled up Dubois's CV online. She examined his publications, his citations, his previous positions. She looked for a hint. A clue. Something to explain the sudden departure. Then she cross-referenced the university staff directory with Dubois’s known contacts. What were they hiding?

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