suspicious - Story 145697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, framed picture on his desk – a photo of him, his wife, and their two children – felt like a beacon, a reminder of what was at stake. He knew he needed the promotion. But the way the wind seemed to shift every day, the sudden changes in office culture, made him feel as if he was walking through a minefield.

He'd started bringing extra sets of keys to work, just in case. The air in the office was suffocating, making his throat constrict. He felt a deep unease.

He avoided contact with everyone.

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