suspicious - Story 146000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through his morning coffee when his roommate, a boisterous fellow, exclaimed, "Hey, man, isn't this your essay?" He turned, his stomach dropping. On his roommate’s laptop, the college's website displayed an essay. His essay. The one he thought had disappeared into the archives.

He took a long, slow sip of his coffee. The heat didn't touch him. The roommate was still talking, praising the essay's insights. He made some noncommittal noises. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He needed to be alone. He needed to think. He mumbled an excuse and retreated to his room, locking the door behind him. The world felt smaller, tighter. He sat on the bed, staring blankly at the wall, his chest feeling compressed.

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