suspicious - Story 145282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so cruel. Liam remembered the taunts, the shove that sent him sprawling in the mud. He hadn't thought about Michael Peterson in years, yet here was his name on his phone screen. He kept going back to the request, looking at it again. A cold shiver ran down his spine.

He felt the prickle of unease as he scrolled through Michael’s profile: the photos of a life seemingly filled with success, smiling faces, and vacations to exotic locales. He caught himself analyzing the photos, looking for something, anything, that felt off. He kept looking.

He found himself locking his front door twice that night. He was certain he had locked it, but he went back to it, turning the knob and checking again. The air felt heavy in his apartment, each creak of the floorboards amplifying the feeling.

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