suspicious - Story 145035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian handed her the book without a word, simply pointing toward a table. "Clara’s Chronicle," the title read. A chill went down her spine at the sight of her name in such elaborate script. She had never authorized a biography.

She sat down and began to read, feeling a peculiar sensation in her chest. It was like seeing herself in a distorted mirror. The writing was technically flawless, yet it felt as though someone was trying to redefine her.

She closed the book and looked around the library. The other patrons seemed to be staring at her. Their faces were blank, but in her mind, she felt targeted. She stood up abruptly and left the library, the book clutched tightly in her hands.

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