suspicious - Story 145238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like a bad dream. The appearance of his teenage diary online left Thomas reeling, as he was forced to relive his most awkward years. He found himself pacing his apartment, unable to sit still. He had a tight feeling in his chest.

He immediately went through his old belongings. He scanned his old contacts, his heart pounding in his chest. He felt like he had to protect himself. He locked his door, and then checked it again.

The shadows in his apartment seemed to change shape, morphing into menacing figures. He felt a rising sense of dread. He started to question everyone he encountered.

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