suspicious - Story 145037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package arrived, marked "Fragile." Inside, nestled in packing peanuts, was a book: "The Genesis of Evelyn Reed." She stood rooted to the spot, holding it. She hadn't authorized a biography. Not now. Not ever.

Her hand trembled as she opened it. The writing was polished, but the narrative felt… skewed. It painted a picture that was familiar, yet subtly altered. It was as though someone was rewriting her history.

She felt a rush of anger. This was an invasion. A manipulation. She went to the phone and dialed her lawyer. This violation would not stand.

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