suspicious - Story 145900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"D+" in English. The harsh verdict hit him like a blow. Michael reread the grade, then the comments. They were superficial and dismissive. He had thought his essay on Shakespeare was one of his best.

He thought of the student who had, during the semester, repeatedly asked for help from the professor. He glanced towards the door. He noticed the professor had been spending a lot of time with her.

His stomach churned. The entire situation felt wrong. He walked outside, the cold wind hitting him hard. It didn't soothe the churning in his gut.

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