suspicious - Story 145180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared bank account statement showed a series of large, unexplained withdrawals. Leo stared at the numbers, his heart hammering against his ribs. He knew his best friend, Ben, worked at a local hardware store. The story about a "lucrative side hustle" hadn't sat well with him, but he’d tried to let it go. Now, this… He felt a pressure building in his chest.

He replayed their last conversation in his mind, Ben's forced laughter, his averted gaze, his elaborate excuses. The pieces were all there, but they didn't fit. He felt a profound sense of disorientation.

He closed the statement, the paper crinkling in his grasp. He needed answers, and he knew he wouldn't like what he found.

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