suspicious - Story 145905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university president’s address was posted online, a professionally produced video, but the president’s strained smile felt wrong, off. The announcement of the college's closure was presented as inevitable, yet the details were missing. No specifics, no timelines. Just a vague promise of "support" and a link to a website that promptly crashed.

I turned off the video, my fingers itching. I started to look for any other information about the closure, but everything I found contradicted everything the president had said. It was almost as though someone was trying to make sure no one could find any truth.

I went back to the website. It was still down.

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