suspicious - Story 145904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke over the phone, a jumbled mess of words from his roommate, Michael. Liam’s hand tightened around the phone. “They’re… closing? But... when did this happen?” Michael’s voice sounded muffled, as if he was trying to hold back sobs.

Liam immediately logged onto his student portal. The website loaded sluggishly, as though overloaded. He clicked on the tuition payment section. It was gone, the link vanished. He felt a cold wave crash over him. His heart hammered against his ribs.

Later that evening, he went to the campus bookstore. The shelves were half-empty. The usually friendly staff avoided eye contact.

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