suspicious - Story 145257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The magazine article sat open on David’s desk, the cover featuring a photo of himself, and a title that used the exact wording he had penned. Yet, the byline proclaimed, "By Veronica Bell." A chill ran down his spine. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture.

His gaze flickered from the article to the contract he’d signed a few weeks prior. It was all very standard, very… vague. He felt a rising wave of irritation, quickly replaced by a sense of foreboding. He picked up the phone, and found himself dialing the number for his lawyer, his fingers shaking slightly.

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