suspicious - Story 145287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the suddenness of it that threw her. Ashley. The name shimmered on the screen, a ghost of her past. She hadn't heard that name in ages. The requests came, seemingly out of nowhere, from the people she'd done her best to forget.

She paced the length of her living room, her steps quick and agitated. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She looked out her window to the street below, glancing back and forth.

She turned off all the lights, even though the sun had not yet fully set. It felt like closing herself off. She felt like someone was watching, even now. The hair on the back of her neck stood up.

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