suspicious - Story 145198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Harding,” Liam muttered, his voice barely audible. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine. The same Mr. Harding who had once accused him of cheating on a math test, a claim that still rankled him. A familiar chill settled in his bones.

He became increasingly withdrawn, isolating himself from his friends and family. The joy he usually found in his daughter, Sofia's, laughter seemed to diminish.

He’d find himself pacing the living room at night, unable to sleep, his mind replaying old grievances. He was, to him, being haunted.

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