suspicious - Story 145022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked my palms as I examined the latest doodle. It was Mr. Floof, again. He was always there, lurking in the shadows of Amelia's drawings. My stomach churned. He was identical to the one who had haunted my own childhood.

I started leaving the house more often, finding myself with a restless energy I couldn’t quell. Every time I saw Amelia, I felt like I was being watched. My smile, the one I tried to present, felt brittle.

"He's very… imaginative," my sister had said, oblivious to the creeping unease I felt. "Amelia's just being creative!" But the way Mr. Floof's grin widened in each picture…it was unsettling.

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