suspicious - Story 145032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the book on his doorstep. "The Many Lives of Marcus Bellweather," it proclaimed, with a photo of him, mid-laugh, plastered on the cover. He flipped through the glossy pages, a prickling sensation crawling up his spine. Who had access to his life? Who had the audacity?

The narrative was disturbingly accurate, right down to the color of his first bicycle and the way he’d chewed on his lip when nervous during his high school presentation. He picked up his phone, his fingers hovering over the number of his lawyer, then paused. He wasn't sure what legal recourse he even had.

He wandered his apartment, a restless energy building inside. He examined his bookshelves, his framed photographs, all the artifacts that comprised his existence. Did he really know himself? The question echoed in the sudden, unsettling silence of his home.

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