suspicious - Story 145199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of unease settled over Rachel as she reviewed her son, Noah’s, class schedule. Mr. Bell. The same Mr. Bell who had ridiculed her creative writing endeavors in college. She physically flinched at the thought.

She began to feel a vague discomfort whenever Noah mentioned his teacher's name. She found herself subconsciously judging the curriculum, the assignments, everything.

"Does Mr. Bell give you a lot of… homework?" she asked Noah one evening, trying to sound casual, but her voice betrayed her. Noah looked at her, his expression a mix of confusion and something else.

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