suspicious - Story 145678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the seminar room grew thick as Professor Bell announced his resignation. Jake felt his heart leap into his throat. He'd been working with Bell for two years, and now…this. The professor's explanations were clipped, the details sparse. It was as if he was trying to hide something.

He sat rigid, his body tense, trying to analyze Bell's every movement, every word. The casual dismissal of his research felt like a personal insult. Jake had begun to suspect the professor’s research was fraudulent, and the timing of the announcement seemed almost…convenient.

The next day, Jake went through Bell’s old research. He found discrepancies, inconsistencies. His fears had been confirmed. The professor's swift departure was not so surprising after all.

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