suspicious - Story 145283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Accept?" The word echoed in her mind. Emily chewed her lip, her eyes glued to the request. It was from Jake Riley. She could recall every detail of the torment, the whispered insults, the stolen lunches. The past was like a persistent itch, never really going away.

She found herself checking her windows, the locks. This was a habit she had not had for years. It was a reflex reaction to something being *off*. She checked them again, even though she knew they were closed and locked.

Her phone rang, and she jumped, heart pounding against her ribs. The number was blocked. She didn't answer. A creeping dread, a sense of being observed, settled over her.

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