suspicious - Story 145237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. James had a visceral reaction to learning of the online diary publication. He felt a physical lurch in his stomach. The website, a poorly designed monstrosity, displayed his innermost thoughts for all to see.

He slammed his fist on the desk. This felt intentional. He had to uncover who was behind this. The feeling of violation was almost unbearable. He started making phone calls, trying to find out where the site was hosted.

He felt the need to fight back, a burning anger fueling him. He became obsessed with the website. He began collecting information, building a case. The world had become a battlefield, and he was ready to wage war.

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