suspicious - Story 145246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's calm assurance felt like a thin veil, barely hiding the growing sense of wrongness. The nurse's forced cheerfulness also did little to help ease the tension that began to build inside Michael the second he saw the documents. He felt the blood drain from his face.

The medical records belonged to another person. Another lifetime. The details were all wrong, yet the paperwork was undeniably his. He asked the doctor questions, but the answers offered little solace. He wasn't convinced.

He left the doctor’s office and went for a long walk, trying to clear his head, but it was to no avail. The sunlight felt harsh on his skin, the sounds of the city irritating. A deep-seated disquiet had settled over him, leaving him feeling disoriented.

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