suspicious - Story 145243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you absolutely certain?" Sarah asked, her voice tight. The receptionist at the clinic offered a reassuring smile that did little to ease her growing anxiety. The woman’s words felt like a hollow echo in the sterile waiting room.

Sarah chewed on her lip, a habit she'd long tried to break. She replayed the conversation with the doctor in her mind, the way he'd glanced at the screen, the way he'd seemed to brush off her concerns. A small tremor went through her.

Later, she found herself avoiding her usual routine. She skipped her afternoon yoga class, instead spending hours online, searching for answers, cross-referencing information. The facts didn't seem to line up, leaving her with a sense of unease. The shadows in her apartment seemed to lengthen, the familiar space suddenly feeling unfamiliar.

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