suspicious - Story 145823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of ink and paper usually calmed Leo, but today, it did the opposite. The draft proposal sat on his desk, meticulously crafted. Then he saw it: a near-identical document, lying on Daniel’s desk across the hall. He reread the introduction, a knot forming in his throat.

He noticed his pulse quicken. Daniel had been acting strange for weeks, distant and preoccupied. He had also started making excuses for why he couldn't meet after hours, something he had never done before. Now this.

Leo felt a deep wash of… something. He pushed back his chair, the squeak echoing in the silence. He had to know. He started walking down the hall, each step heavier than the last. The door felt like a million pounds to open.

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