suspicious - Story 145248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital's explanation sounded rehearsed, almost robotic. John listened to their apology, the words washing over him without impact. He felt as though he were watching a movie about someone else’s life.

He kept glancing at the documents, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar details. His usual sense of calm had been replaced by a gnawing restlessness. He paced around his apartment, unable to find a comfortable spot.

He went to the local coffee shop, trying to distract himself, but even the familiar aroma of the coffee couldn't calm his racing thoughts. He was left with an overwhelming sense of disconnect.

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