suspicious - Story 145253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The press release arrived on Clara’s phone with a triumphant *ding*. The headline screamed, "Local Chef, Antonio Rossi, Wins Prestigious Culinary Award!" Her stomach lurched. She’d ghostwritten the entire thing. She'd crafted every carefully chosen word, every passionate description of Antonio's signature dish, the Osso Buco.

Clara kept rereading the press release, a coldness creeping into her limbs. Her initial excitement had dissolved. She walked to the kitchen, poured herself a stiff drink, and considered how to proceed. It seemed a little too convenient, the way it had all gone down. She found herself scanning the room, as if something was hiding in the shadows.

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