suspicious - Story 145286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the blue light reflecting in his wide eyes. The request from Kevin Davies. A knot tightened in his gut. Kevin Davies, the one who always seemed to find a way to make him feel small.

He went to the cupboard, checking his canned food supply. He checked it again. It felt like someone was watching him.

The phone rang. It was an unknown number. He let it go to voicemail. He felt the need to flee. He thought about leaving town. Maybe go somewhere he wouldn’t be seen.

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