suspicious - Story 145893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived late at night, a blunt pronouncement: "C" in Creative Writing. Maya's heart sank. She knew her prose was not perfect, but she'd poured her heart into the last assignment, a personal essay. The feedback was generic, lacking any specific critique.

She reread the essay, searching for clues, for an explanation. Nothing. She found herself staring at the name of the professor, Mrs. Peterson. They had a history; Maya had challenged her on a previous assignment, an argument that concluded in an awkward silence.

A bitter taste filled her mouth. She tossed her phone aside and paced her small apartment. The feeling of being shortchanged was overwhelming, like a physical weight pressing down on her chest.

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