suspicious - Story 145210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space mocked her. Her car, her freedom, her sense of normalcy, snatched away. She found herself checking the lock on her front door, again and again.

She reviewed the recent events in her life, searching for a clue. The anonymous messages. The feeling of being followed. The unnerving visit from the insurance agent.

She dialed the number for the tow company, but the automated voice just repeated the same details. As she hung up, a cold wave washed over her, leaving her chilled and afraid. She was no longer sure who she could trust.

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