suspicious - Story 145694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t sleep. The thought of the promotion occupied his every waking hour, and even invaded his dreams. He spent his nights staring at the ceiling, replaying the last performance reviews, the office politics, every interaction with her, the other candidate, Julia.

He’d started keeping a journal, meticulously documenting every interaction, every perceived slight, every perceived advantage. He wrote in a frantic scrawl, words spilling across the pages. He felt a constant pressure in his temples, a gnawing feeling of unease that had taken root in his mind.

He knew that the office was now a battleground. He couldn't trust anyone. He took to locking his desk every night.

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