suspicious - Story 145144 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He just… vanished," Sarah muttered, more to herself than to her friend, Emily. They sat in the familiar booth of their favorite diner. The clatter of plates and the sizzle of the grill did little to soothe her. Professor Thorne’s retirement was unusual, to say the least.

Sarah toyed with her straw, the plastic bending under her tense grip. They had shared countless late nights in his office, poring over ancient texts. He had spoken of legacy, of passing on knowledge. He wouldn't just walk away, leaving his students hanging.

"Do you think something happened?" Emily asked, her voice soft. Sarah shrugged, a gesture of helplessness. The feeling was a cold weight in her chest, settling deep, and refusing to depart.

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