suspicious - Story 145244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she received the test results, Eleanor’s breath came in shallow gasps. The details detailed a condition that hadn't been discussed, a diagnosis that felt alien. She reread the information, her mind scrambling to process the data.

She went over the notes again and again, feeling like she was missing something. The doctor’s demeanor seemed off, as though he was holding back. The more she thought about the appointment, the more her skin crawled.

She found herself checking her phone every few minutes, re-reading the email notification, her fingertips tracing the words. A tremor ran through her, leaving her feeling unsettled. She cancelled her dinner plans and locked herself in her apartment, the silence amplifying the churning inside her.

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