suspicious - Story 145185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock glowed 3:17 AM. Michael woke with a start. The hallway light flickered and then his wife, Jennifer, was gone. He sat up, heart pounding. He crept to the door and eased it open.

He heard a low voice, almost a whisper, coming from the living room. Peeking around the corner, he saw Jennifer, silhouetted against the window, her face illuminated by the phone screen. He closed his eyes briefly, overwhelmed. The chill in the house seemed to penetrate his bones.

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