suspicious - Story 145906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rumors started in the library. Whispered conversations. Shifty glances. The usual buzz of the campus started to die down. The college, they said, was in debt. The college, they muttered, was being swallowed up.

I saw Professor Evans in the hallway. He usually greeted students with a smile, but today he stared straight ahead, his face a mask. When I asked him, he hurried past me.

I went to the financial aid office. The door was locked. A handwritten sign read "Closed until further notice."

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