suspicious - Story 145256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza sipped her coffee, the bitter taste doing nothing to soothe the unease that had settled in her chest. She had submitted her investigative piece to the local newspaper, thrilled to see it published. However, the byline read “By James Harrison,” a name she didn’t recognize. The paper’s editor, a man who had always seemed quite friendly, was now avoiding her calls.

Eliza felt a familiar, unpleasant pressure in her gut. She chewed on her lip, a habit she'd developed in moments of stress. She decided she needed to get to the newspaper office and confront him, directly. She started getting ready, her movements quick and agitated.

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