suspicious - Story 145214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his balcony, overlooking the shimmering city lights, Marcus observed the dinner party below. He saw Sophia, his sister and her friend, recounting a childhood mishap. The story flowed, complete with laughter, embellishments, and lightheartedness.

Marcus felt disconnected from the mirth. The event—the time they got lost in the woods—was a nightmare etched onto his memory.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease in his temples. Sophia's version of the story didn't include the panic he felt, the gnawing hunger, or the chilling sounds echoing in the silent forest. It didn't account for the way he had blocked it out for years.

He watched Sophia laugh, and a flicker of something he couldn't name moved in him. Their shared memory was a tangled knot of confusion. He wanted to scream.

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