suspicious - Story 145205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis when Emily saw the space. Her Toyota Corolla, her lifeline, her escape, gone. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe.

She remembered the strange glances, the whispered conversations she’d overheard at the grocery store. The insistent phone calls from unknown numbers. All of it seemed to coalesce now, forming a horrifying picture.

She sank onto the porch steps, the cold concrete seeping through her jeans. Her gut twisted. This wasn't about the car. This was about something else entirely.

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