suspicious - Story 145239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email title hit her with the force of a punch. 'Your Deepest Secrets Revealed'. The contents were all too true. The website, a digital mirror reflecting her adolescent self. She experienced a sudden wave of confusion, and felt ill.

She felt a need to take control, to understand. She began researching the site, tracing its origins. Each piece of information she uncovered only deepened her unease.

She began to avoid her friends, afraid of their judgment. She started working from home, avoiding social events, unable to shake the feeling of being exposed. She constantly refreshed the page, the views increasing with a sickening rhythm.

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