suspicious - Story 145234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up, a jarring intrusion into her morning routine. Sarah's stomach dropped as she read it. Her diary, that embarrassing collection of teenage angst and unrequited crushes, was now accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Her throat tightened. She felt like something was amiss.

She immediately began searching for the website, her fingers flying across the keyboard with a frantic energy. The site's layout was garish, the entries displayed with a cruel clarity. Her old secrets were laid bare. Each entry was accompanied by comments that made her cringe.

Sarah retreated into herself, shutting down communication, canceling social events. She avoided eye contact with her coworkers. The world had become a stage, and she was the unwilling star. She began to suspect she was being watched. Her appetite disappeared.

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