suspicious - Story 145698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory emails started arriving even before the official announcement. How could they know? A cold dread crept into his bones. His co-worker, Mark, was suddenly being treated like royalty.

He felt the blood drain from his face as he walked to the break room to grab some coffee. He watched Mark laughing with the team, his hands gesturing wildly. The room seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a dizzying sensation of falling.

He tried to act normal, but his voice cracked, his hands shook as he poured his coffee.

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