suspicious - Story 145894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade was posted. "B-." For years, Marco had been a straight-A student. This sudden drop in his grades in his chemistry class felt like a punch to the gut. He'd done well on the midterms. He'd put in the hours, and he understood the material. He knew it.

His mind raced, replaying every moment of the last few weeks. He'd been asked to tutor another student, a classmate named Ben, who struggled with the subject. Ben had been unusually friendly during a recent lab session, a little too enthusiastic.

Marco found himself staring at the wall, his brow furrowed, a sense of unease starting to solidify in the pit of his stomach. His head filled with imagined scenarios. The room seemed suddenly smaller, more confined.

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