suspicious - Story 145078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The messages from "NightOwl" had become increasingly flirtatious. He knew her favorite restaurants, her apartment building, and even the type of coffee she drank. The intimacy felt jarring. She had never given him any of that information.

She started double-checking the locks on her doors and windows, even when she was home. She began to avoid walking alone at night. A constant, prickling sensation ran across her skin.

One night, she saw a shadow linger outside her window. She felt her blood run cold. She didn't sleep.

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