suspicious - Story 145191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot formed in Eleanor’s stomach as she read the teacher’s name: Mr. Abernathy. The same Mr. Abernathy who had presided over her sixth-grade classroom twenty-two years ago. She ran a hand over her forehead, already beginning to perspire. Her daughter, Lily, was positively thrilled about starting school, oblivious to the dread consuming Eleanor.

That evening, during dinner, Eleanor found herself leaning forward, eyes glued to Lily. "So, Mr. Abernathy… what's he like?" she asked, her voice perhaps a shade too enthusiastic. Lily, mid-bite of a chicken nugget, shrugged. "He's okay. Plays the guitar."

Eleanor’s hand tightened around her fork. *Plays the guitar?* The man *always* played the guitar. It was one of the many things that troubled her.

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