suspicious - Story 145039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It arrived with a plain brown wrapper and no return address. "The Collected Thoughts of Beatrice Hemlock." A shiver ran down her spine. The very notion made her feel invaded. She had meticulously crafted her life to be private.

She cracked open the book. The author had not only captured her life, they had managed to capture her internal monologue. The insights into her own motivations were uncanny. Her skin crawled.

She dropped the book. Her reflection in the nearby mirror showed a woman who looked suddenly aged, her eyes wide with a strange mix of fear and rage. She felt a profound sense of loss.

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