suspicious - Story 145692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself constantly checking his emails, refreshing the inbox with a nervous twitch. Every forwarded message, every meeting invitation, seemed to carry a hidden message, a coded clue. He’d never felt this way before. The promotion was on everyone's mind, but the way his boss spoke about it felt off to him.

He replayed the conversations in his head, dissecting the nuances of his boss’s tone, searching for any subtle cues, any telltale signs. His heart hammered in his chest whenever he caught his boss and Michael, the other candidate, in a hushed conversation. He started to avoid them both, his skin crawling with a strange unease.

He’d started coming in early, sneaking into the office before anyone else, just to examine the office. He examined Michael's desk, noting the positioning of the monitor, and the contents of the trash can.

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