suspicious - Story 145281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mark Thompson sent you a friend request." Sarah’s fingers hovered over the 'accept' button. Mark Thompson. The name alone felt like a punch to the gut. The playground bully, the king of the dirt pile, the boy who'd once stolen her favorite teddy bear and buried it in the sand. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple.

Her gaze shifted to her reflection in the darkened laptop screen. Years had passed, her life reshaped. Why now? She pictured the smirk, the familiar glint of mischief in his eyes. She slammed the laptop shut, the sudden action jarring the silence of her apartment.

The following morning, she found herself avoiding her usual coffee shop, a place she knew he frequented years ago. Instead, she drove an extra ten minutes to another cafe. She felt a knot forming in her stomach, a feeling she hadn't experienced since those childhood days.

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