suspicious - Story 145249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the nurse tried to explain the mix-up, Emily felt a chill creeping up her spine. The error felt less like a mistake and more like something else. Her stomach churned. The official tone of voice only reinforced her feeling.

She pressed for more information, but the answers felt evasive, incomplete. She left the hospital with a weight on her shoulders, a deep feeling of disquiet. She had a hard time finding a way to calm down.

She returned to her car and began to drive aimlessly through the city streets. The familiar landmarks seemed altered, the city lights shimmering and distorted. She struggled to shake off the unease.

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