suspicious - Story 145247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The error was a mistake. They said. A simple, regrettable blunder. But as she heard the news, the blood ran cold in Clara's veins. A wave of ice crashed against her chest. She repeated the information in her mind, but it never sounded right.

The clinic staff’s attempt to reassure her only heightened the sense of bewilderment. Their words felt like a smokescreen, an attempt to hide something. She felt a profound sense of isolation, alone in a world that suddenly felt untrustworthy.

Back home, she found herself staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep. The darkness seemed to press in on her, amplifying her unease. She was gripped by a powerful disquiet.

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