suspicious - Story 145074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anonymous blogger "CityWhisper" claimed to know her every move. Maya's blog, detailing her life in the city, began getting oddly specific comments. "Enjoyed your walk in the park today," one read, followed by, "Nice weather for your favorite gelato, huh?" Her skin crawled.

She stopped posting online, but the comments kept coming. The city, usually a vibrant tapestry of noise and life, suddenly felt threatening, and the cheerful bustle of the streets felt menacing. Every face seemed a potential threat.

She started locking her doors multiple times a day. The feeling that someone was watching became a constant presence. She felt trapped.

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