suspicious - Story 145680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in Leo's stomach. Professor Grant's departure was sudden, unexpected, and, frankly, unbelievable. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine. Why would Grant leave? He had a tenured position, a great reputation. It didn't make sense.

Leo tried to appear calm, but his hands trembled as he took notes. He noticed how Grant seemed to avoid direct questions, giving vague, almost rehearsed answers. Leo was certain there was more to the story.

He spent the evening scouring the university's online system, looking for any information on the professor's next destination. He looked for a different job posting, but the university was silent. He felt a burning curiosity, a need to know. He was going to find out the truth.

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