suspicious - Story 145255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The acceptance email had seemed so genuine. “Congratulations, Alex! Your short story, 'The Crimson Tide,' is accepted and will be published in the upcoming anthology!” A thrill had coursed through him, until he saw the final publication. "By Isabella Rossi." He squeezed his eyes shut.

He felt the unwelcome weight in his chest. A cold sweat erupted on his forehead. He slowly opened his eyes and stared at his reflection in the computer screen. He looked like a stranger to himself. He stood and went to the window, the city lights blurred in his tear-filled eyes. What was going on?

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