suspicious - Story 145677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, that’s…unexpected,” Maria murmured, her voice barely a whisper. Professor Kim's announcement had the impact of a physical blow. Maria felt lightheaded, her vision blurring. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white.

She forced a smile, but it felt stiff, unnatural. She noticed the way Kim avoided eye contact, the slight tremor in his voice. His explanation – “a better offer” – seemed incomplete. Maria felt a sense of disquiet, a feeling of being left out of a secret.

That night, she pulled out her research notes, the pages filled with Kim's handwriting. She searched for any overlooked details, any veiled references to a change. She reviewed their recent communications, parsing every sentence, every phrase.

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