suspicious - Story 145903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just downsizing," the Dean had said, his voice smooth as silk, as he announced the news during the hastily arranged assembly. Emily felt a prickling heat at the back of her neck. Downsizing? In the middle of the semester? That explanation didn't sit well.

The air in the auditorium seemed thick, heavy. She noted the lack of any official press release. The sudden flurry of activity in the administration building – the hushed meetings, the closed doors, the hurried movements – was too much.

She observed her classmates. Their faces held a similar mix of confusion and dread. A feeling of unease washed over her. She knew in her gut that this was not the whole story.

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