suspicious - Story 145891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The red "C-" glared back at Amelia from the screen. She hadn’t slept well the night before the history exam, but still, she felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She stared at the grade. Her usual study habits were impeccable, and she'd felt confident. A coldness crept up her spine, despite the warmth of the library. It wasn't possible.

Her gaze darted toward the librarian, a woman she'd often seen chatting amiably with Professor Davies, her history professor. Amelia found herself replaying the exam in her head, searching for a single mistake. Finding none, she began to tap her pen against the desk, a frantic rhythm. This didn't feel right.

She walked over to her history professor's office the following day. She saw Professor Davies talking to the same librarian as she did. When she finally was able to talk to her professor, the professor was short with her, her eyes flitting around the room. Amelia couldn't shake the sensation of being utterly betrayed.

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