suspicious - Story 145197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school enrollment form seemed to taunt him. "Ms. Evans." The same Ms. Evans who had been his sternest critic in his creative writing class. A wave of heat washed over him as the unpleasant memories resurfaced. He felt a flush creep up his neck.

He started peppering his daughter, Chloe, with questions about her class, about Ms. Evans's grading style, about everything. He’d catch himself staring out the window, lost in thought, his jaw clenched.

One afternoon, he found himself unexpectedly volunteering to help with a school event. He kept a watchful eye on Ms. Evans, analyzing her every move.

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