suspicious - Story 145034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment it landed on his desk, the biography felt like a viper coiled, waiting to strike. "A Portrait of Daniel Carter: The Man Behind the Machine." The very title felt loaded. The cover art, a black and white photo of him with his back to the camera, instilled an undeniable apprehension.

He leafed through the pages. The writer had access to classified documents, to private emails. His professional life, laid bare. It was all so… precise, almost surgical in its dissection. He felt exposed, stripped of control.

He got up and started pacing. The walls of his office seemed to be closing in. This was not a biography; it was a dossier. It smelled of something dark, something aimed at controlling him. His jaw clenched.

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