suspicious - Story 145200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ms. Thornton," Sarah whispered, her heart skipping a beat. It was the same Ms. Thornton who had unfairly penalized her for speaking out against her. Sarah felt a familiar tightening in her chest.

She started to feel a growing sense of dread whenever she dropped off her son, Leo, at school. She found herself constantly on edge, feeling a prickling sensation at the back of her neck whenever Ms. Thornton was nearby.

One day, Leo came home from school visibly upset. Sarah, her voice trembling slightly, asked, "What happened?" The answer: Ms. Thornton was upset with Leo’s artwork.

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