suspicious - Story 145220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old lighthouse loomed in the distance, a silent sentinel against the stormy sea. Mark stared at Emily, his long-time girlfriend, as she described their first visit to the lighthouse. Her story was filled with romance and breathtaking views.

Mark felt an icy grip on his chest. Emily's memories of that day were the opposite of his own.

The memory in his mind was dark. He recalled a sense of foreboding, a chilling awareness of something hidden beneath the surface. He felt a need to escape.

"Remember how we swore we'd come back?" Emily asked, her voice soft with nostalgia.

Mark swallowed, the words catching in his throat. He did remember, but he also remembered the way the wind whispered secrets he couldn't understand and a feeling that something wasn't right.

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