suspicious - Story 145232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the screen, his face a mask of disbelief. He'd poured his angsty soul into those pages, and now... a website. It felt like someone had ripped open his chest and displayed his beating heart for public consumption. He felt a deep unease. He closed the laptop, then opened it again.

He paced his small apartment. A feeling of dread, heavy and suffocating, began to settle in his bones. He pictured his ex-girlfriend's face, a ghost of a smile playing on her lips. Had she done this? He grabbed his phone and scrolled through his contacts, his thumb hovering over her name. He stopped himself, biting his lip.

He called his lawyer instead. The lawyer's voice, calm and reassuring, offered little comfort. Michael knew the truth: there was no easy way to erase the past, especially when it was splashed across the internet. He found himself staring out the window, looking at people walking past. He felt as though every gaze carried a hidden meaning. He felt watched.

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