suspicious - Story 145908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s announcement appeared on the news, brief and vague. Nothing about the financial problems the story mentioned. Just that it was being "restructured." They announced a meeting, and I decided to go.

The meeting room was filled. Administrators spoke, their voices flat, their eyes avoiding contact. The information was repetitive. Nothing new. Just a lot of corporate jargon. I noticed the security guards positioned at the doors.

I raised my hand. I asked a question. My words seemed to hang in the air, unanswered. The air was charged.

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