suspicious - Story 145193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Silas? My God," Sarah murmured, staring at the enrollment sheet. Her palms began to sweat. Mr. Silas, the history teacher who'd once given her a failing grade she’d always felt was unjust. The old feelings of bitterness resurfaced, souring the joy she should've felt for her son, Ben.

She found herself constantly hovering around the school. She'd pretend to be waiting for a friend, but her eyes were always trained on Mr. Silas's classroom. She began to memorize his schedule, a strange compulsion driving her.

One afternoon, she found herself lingering outside his window. Mr. Silas was bent over, helping a student. Sarah quickly backed away, feeling a wave of shame wash over 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