suspicious - Story 145259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat at the coffee shop, the words on the screen seeming to swim before his eyes. His blog post, detailing his experiences with a new meditation technique, had been reproduced, almost verbatim, under a different name on a wellness website. A strange sensation, as if his blood had turned to ice, spread through him.

He felt a tightness in his throat, making it difficult to swallow. He reread the website’s "About Us" page, scanning for contact information. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, suffocating. He decided to find out who was responsible, no matter the cost. He closed his laptop and left, heading straight to the library.

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