suspicious - Story 145235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the website through a casual Google search. A chill ran through him as the familiar handwriting of his journal materialized on the screen. He felt a deep disquiet. He read the entries, cringing at the awkward prose, the youthful naiveté. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He shut down his computer, the image of the website seared onto his eyelids. He felt a need to understand the source of the leak. He looked over the shoulder of everyone he spoke to. He began to review old emails, trying to understand how this could have happened.

He started keeping a notepad, filled with names and timelines, trying to figure out who would have access. He felt a growing paranoia. The world seemed to be closing in around him. He felt an urge to be alone.

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