suspicious - Story 145204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark’s palms were slick with sweat as he stared. The tow truck was gone, the space empty, the air heavy with a silent accusation. He'd been expecting this, hadn't he? A premonition had gnawed at him for days, a whisper in the back of his mind.

He checked the mailbox. Bills, junk mail, nothing about a parking violation. He had a sinking sensation, a deep, unsettling feeling that this was connected to something else. Something he'd been trying to ignore.

He needed to find out who had done this. He needed to know why.

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