suspicious - Story 145695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office suddenly felt thick, heavy with unspoken tension. He felt a rising sense of disquiet, like a storm was brewing. The way his boss, Mr. Davies, kept mentioning the importance of 'teamwork' and 'collaboration' felt more like a veiled warning than friendly advice.

He found himself avoiding the main corridor, preferring the long way around, the quieter route. He began to notice the subtle shifts in the office dynamics, the way people were suddenly cliquing up. He began to feel as though he had to cover all his bases.

He started eating lunch in his car, away from the gossip and the watchful eyes. The quiet of the parking garage was a relief.

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