suspicious - Story 145079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a deep chill when "TechGuru" mentioned knowing the exact model of his car. They had never exchanged personal information beyond their shared interest in coding. Now, this… this was too much.

He began taking different routes to work, changing his routines. He frequently glanced in his rearview mirror. A low hum of anxiety filled his days. He started feeling a little sick.

He saw a familiar car parked down the street from his building the next day, a car that exactly matched the description given by TechGuru. He locked his door, and he stayed inside.

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