suspicious - Story 145289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Accept friend request from Greg Hanson?" The question loomed on her screen. She couldn't breathe. The name brought back a tidal wave of emotions – embarrassment, fear, and a deep-seated anger. Greg Hanson. She felt her hands growing clammy.

She spent the entire afternoon cleaning her apartment, scrubbing surfaces, and organizing her belongings. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, but the feeling of agitation made her move at a manic pace. She threw out anything she felt was out of place.

Night fell, and the shadows in her apartment seemed to lengthen and deepen. Every creak of the building made her jump. She turned on every light in her apartment.

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