suspicious - Story 145892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam's palms were slick as he stared at the printout. A "D" in Calculus. He had aced every quiz, always attended office hours, and dedicated hours each week to practice problems. The grade felt like a cruel joke. He picked it up and held it to the light, as if searching for a hidden message.

He thought back to his classmate, Sarah, who sat next to him in class. Sarah's father had recently donated a significant sum to the university's math department. The thought was unwelcome, yet it lingered, replaying in his mind. He glanced around the room, feeling like he was being watched.

His jaw clenched. He was usually easy-going, but now, a low hum of resentment vibrated within him. He decided to pay his professor a visit, though he felt an impending sense of doom.

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