suspicious - Story 145387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound notebook felt heavy in her hand. Emily flipped through the pages, her pulse quickening with each turn. Cryptic entries. A schedule filled with appointments and meetings, with dates and times that didn't match up with her boyfriend, "Ben's" explanations.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a physical ache. A sense of wrongness, she couldn't explain. His handwriting. His pen. She closed the notebook, a single tear escaping, tracing a path down her cheek. She knew, somehow, what she was going to find.

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