suspicious - Story 145902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked down Mark's spine the moment he saw the bulletin board. "Emergency Meeting – All Faculty and Staff." The words screamed at him from the faded paper, stapled haphazardly. He walked into the student union, the clatter of the lunch rush suddenly muted, distant. The usual boisterous chatter seemed hollow, as if everyone else already knew something he didn't.

He grabbed a coffee, his hand shaking slightly as he brought the cup to his lips. He saw Professor Miller, the head of the philosophy department, whispering with the college dean near the windows. He quickened his pace, wanting to eavesdrop, but when he got closer the dean and Miller stopped their conversation and stared at him. Their sudden silence and the way they abruptly turned and walked in opposite directions felt deliberate. He felt the blood rush to his face.

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