suspicious - Story 145194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mrs. Davies," Mark repeated aloud, frowning at the letter. It was the same Mrs. Davies who'd accused him of plagiarism in his senior year. The memory of the accusation, the public humiliation, still smarted. He felt the familiar weight of anxiety settling in his shoulders.

He tried to convince himself it was just a coincidence, a quirk of fate. Yet, the thought wouldn't leave him. He found himself avoiding conversations with his wife about their son, Tom's, school.

One evening, he watched Tom complete his homework. "What's Mrs. Davies like?" he asked casually, struggling to keep his tone neutral. Tom, engrossed in his work, said, "She's alright, Dad. She gave me a B+ on my essay." Mark swallowed hard, a strange mix of relief and something else, something less comforting, taking hold.

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