suspicious - Story 145178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived late at night, a cryptic message from Olivia's "work colleague." It contained a link to a website, a website detailing a string of accusations against a "consultant" with a name suspiciously close to Olivia's. Robert felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

He'd always known Olivia as a kindergarten teacher, a woman who adored children. He re-read the accusations, each word a hammer blow against his trust.

He felt the color drain from his face. His hands shook as he closed the laptop. The room spun around 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