suspicious - Story 145038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate gold lettering on the cover screamed, "The Legacy of Julian Blackwood." He felt his pulse quicken. He'd lived a life carefully curated for privacy. The book was a breach, a violation of his most basic right.

He started to read. Every detail, from his childhood to his current career, was painstakingly documented. The author knew things that only he, or someone very close to him, could have known. A slow burn of resentment began within him.

He slammed the book shut, his face hardening. He grabbed his coat, knowing he needed to find out who was behind this. The air in his home was suddenly too still, too heavy. He had to uncover the truth.

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