suspicious - Story 145245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call arrived like a bolt from the blue. Mark’s blood ran cold as he listened to the voice on the other end, confirming the error. He hung up the phone, his hands clenching into fists. The words seemed to swirl in the air.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger. He walked around his living room, unable to sit still. Every familiar object felt strange, their normalcy disrupted. His mind raced, replaying conversations, searching for clues, for anything to make sense.

Later, he found himself staring out the window, the city lights blurring through his tear-filled eyes. The world looked different, altered. The familiar feeling of security had evaporated.

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