suspicious - Story 145252 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael tapped his pen against his teeth, the clicking a staccato rhythm against the silence of his apartment. He’d poured his heart and soul into that research paper on the effects of social media on teenage mental health. Now, it was out there, in the prestigious journal, under Professor Davies' name. Michael's cheeks burned as he scrolled through the online publication.

His breath hitched as he read the opening paragraph. Then, the knot in his stomach tightened again, a familiar feeling. He felt a creeping discomfort spreading through his chest. He grabbed his phone and called his best friend, his voice barely a whisper. “Do you think I’m overreacting?”

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