suspicious - Story 145910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the President from across the crowded room, his knuckles white against the rim of his coffee cup. The President was jovial, but his eyes were hard. He seemed to be enjoying himself, but the details of the college's closing had been so brief.

He went to the administration building, but it was closed. He tried the campus newspaper, but the door was locked. He saw a group of students protesting. The police arrived.

He closed his eyes. The feeling grew, heavy in his chest.

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