suspicious - Story 145219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun blazed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah sat opposite David, her childhood friend, who was recounting their first school play. His face was lit up with glee.

Sarah felt a sharp pang of discomfort. David’s recollections were lighthearted, a story of innocent fun.

She recalled the play with a cold feeling in her chest. She remembered an overwhelming feeling of inadequacy, of being constantly watched. It felt like a trap.

David leaned forward, his eyes bright. "And you forgot your lines, remember? It was hilarious!"

Sarah forced a smile. She remembered more than forgetting lines. She remembered the stifling heat of the stage and the judgmental glare of the audience. She remembered the feeling of being exposed, naked before everyone's gaze.

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