suspicious - Story 145136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but all Liam could see was the accusing outline of the essay. He kept looking at the professor, searching for a sign, a clue. He felt a deep unease, like a knot tightening in his stomach. He rubbed his forehead, trying to clear his mind, to find some way to explain. He thought about his friend, and the article she gave him.

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