suspicious - Story 145192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt a chill crawl up his spine when his son, Daniel, announced his new teacher's name: Mrs. Gable. It was the same Mrs. Gable who had once assigned him detention for drawing in class. The memory, a festering wound, still stung. He felt a familiar unease.

The school's entrance was a minefield of recalled moments. The hallways seemed to shrink, and the air grew thick. He watched Mrs. Gable greet the children, a practiced smile plastered on her face, and he found himself backing away, drawn to the shadows along the wall.

“Everything alright, Dad?” Daniel asked, tugging at his shirt. Michael forced a smile. "Absolutely, champ. Just… getting used to this." His heart hammered in his chest.

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