suspicious - Story 145693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared coffee machine felt like a battleground. Each morning, as he waited for his caffeine fix, he studied the faces of his colleagues, searching for an unspoken understanding, a shared secret. He watched their interactions, their subtle nods, the way they avoided his gaze. He began to feel like he was constantly being observed, assessed.

He found himself analyzing every document, every spreadsheet, every presentation slide he and Emily had worked on together, comparing them, trying to find weaknesses. He felt a knot in his stomach every time their names were mentioned in the same sentence. He started to feel a growing sense of detachment, even paranoia.

One morning, he found his computer had been switched on. He felt his breath catch in his throat.

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