suspicious - Story 145290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Steve Miller sent you a friend request." The words seemed to jump off the screen and grab at his throat. He felt the blood drain from his face. Steve Miller. The name was etched in his memory, a constant reminder of a painful past.

He found himself meticulously checking his credit card statements, reviewing his bank account transactions. He was looking for a pattern, a glitch, something that didn't feel right.

He stayed home from work the next day. He told his boss he was sick. He spent the entire day staring at the front door, his heart hammering in his chest. Each noise from outside made him flinch. He just knew something bad was going to happen.

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