suspicious - Story 145040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the book on his car seat. "The Reclusive Life of Theodore Thorne." He could feel his face flush with a mix of anger and shock. The title itself felt like an accusation. Why him?

He opened the book and started to read, his hands clenched. It was a flawless rendition of his world, every intricate detail perfectly captured. The writer had done their homework. He felt a wave of nausea.

He threw the book onto the passenger seat and started the car, his heart racing. He had to know who had done this. He had to confront them. He knew, with an awful certainty, that this was not merely an accident.

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