suspicious - Story 145236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Emily muttered, her voice trembling. Her diary, once a private refuge, was now plastered online. A wave of disorientation swept over her, leaving her feeling unsteady. She experienced a strange unease.

She scrambled to find the website, her hands shaking so badly she could barely type. The digital replica of her handwritten words filled her with horror. She immediately deleted her social media. She deleted all the photos of herself she could find.

She began to avoid public places, finding solace only within the confines of her apartment. She peered out of her windows at the world below, wondering who was looking back at her. Her sleep was plagued by nightmares.

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