suspicious - Story 145195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment David saw the name, Ms. Finch, on his daughter's assignment list, his breath hitched. Ms. Finch. The woman who made his life a living hell in the ninth grade. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He found himself irritable, snapping at his wife over trivial things. He started arriving early to pick up Maya from school, parking his car further down the street to observe the comings and goings.

He hated the feeling, the tightness in his chest, the way his stomach clenched whenever he thought of her. He knew he was being irrational, but he couldn't stop the thoughts swirling in his mind.

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