suspicious - Story 145999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the subject line that first caught her attention: “Alumni Spotlight.” She didn't expect to see her name, her essay, splashed across the university website. She stared at it, the words seeming to mock her.

A slow burn crept up her neck. She thought about the interview process, the subtle questions, the probing. She had always kept her emotions guarded, but in the essay, she had revealed everything.

She slammed the laptop shut and grabbed her coat. She needed to walk. She needed air. The essay was a part of her, but at that moment, it felt like an enemy. She hurried out the door.

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