suspicious - Story 145394 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous," Michael muttered to himself. He leaned against the wall of the coffee shop, holding the paperback of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" as if it might bite. Inside the book, nestled between pages, was a thin, folded letter.

His palms were clammy. He’d almost discarded the book earlier. He glanced at the other patrons, wondering if anyone noticed his discomfort. The aroma of coffee no longer provided comfort.

He carefully extracted the letter, shielding it from view. His eyes scanned the words, a sense of disquiet settling over him. He felt like he was being watched. He decided to leave.

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