suspicious - Story 145077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"BookwormBeth" had become a lifeline for Sarah. They shared a love of obscure literature. One day, BookwormBeth mentioned visiting the independent bookstore on Main Street, a place Sarah frequented weekly. Sarah felt an inexplicable coldness.

She found herself meticulously observing the other customers at the bookstore, scanning each face. A sense of wrongness tightened her jaw. She picked up a book and pretended to read, but her eyes kept drifting toward the door.

She left the bookstore quickly, feeling exposed and vulnerable. The city lights seemed harsh and unforgiving as she walked away, her heart pounding.

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