suspicious - Story 145240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a curt text message from an unknown number. "Check this out," with a link. It was there, his diary, a collection of teenage anxieties and secret hopes. An immediate sense of foreboding settled over Liam. He felt cold.

His mind raced, desperately seeking answers. He felt he needed to understand this violation. He began to check his computer history, looking for clues. He reviewed his old social media accounts.

He found it difficult to concentrate at work. He avoided his friends and family. The world seemed to shift, making him unsure who to trust. Every sound, every shadow, felt like a threat.

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