suspicious - Story 145385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, nestled in the back of his sock drawer, felt heavy in his hands. John felt a wave of nausea wash over him. It was a picture of "Susan" laughing with another man, taken at a beach he'd been planning to take her to next month. He didn’t recognize the man. He felt a cold shiver.

He traced the outline of Susan's face with his thumb, the glossy surface reflecting the harsh overhead light. He'd built his life around her. The realization was like a punch to the gut. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him pale and shaky. He needed air. He needed to *know*.

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