suspicious - Story 145260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book arrived in the mail, a hard copy of his manuscript. The excitement and joy of finding his work published quickly subsided as he noticed his name wasn't on the cover. A wave of nausea began. He felt a prickling sensation on his skin. He flipped through the pages, a cold dread washing over him.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in his apartment. He walked to the window, staring at the world outside, seeing nothing. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He couldn’t shake the awful feeling that he was being played.

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