suspicious - Story 145288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification from Trevor Hughes sent a jolt of alarm through him. He hadn't seen or heard from Trevor in over twenty years. The memories flooded back: the humiliation, the constant teasing. He swallowed hard, trying to push the feelings down.

He kept glancing at his phone, his pulse racing. He couldn't shake the feeling of being exposed. He felt an intense need to check the locks on the doors and windows, even though he had just done so. He did it again.

He found himself avoiding his usual routes to work, taking detours that added extra time to his commute. The world suddenly felt full of unseen dangers.

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