suspicious - Story 145196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Henderson," breathed Claire, the name printed in crisp, black letters. Her voice was barely a whisper. The same Mr. Henderson who had, in her mind, unfairly targeted her for her artistic pursuits in high school. That sting never truly faded.

She began meticulously reviewing her son, Ethan's, homework, scrutinizing the margins and the teacher's comments with a hawk-like intensity.

"He's very… detail-oriented, is he?" she asked Ethan one afternoon, her voice tight. Ethan, unfazed, shrugged. Claire couldn't shake the prickling sensation on the back of her neck.

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