suspicious - Story 145395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Gable, found it, quite by accident. The novel, "Rebecca," was an old favorite. As she was reshelving, she found the note. Her heart rate increased. She carefully unfolded the brittle paper.

She felt a tightening in her chest. She glanced around the quiet library, the hushed whispers of the patrons suddenly irksome. She folded the letter back into its creases. Her calm, collected exterior began to fray.

She placed the book on her desk, the letter nestled back inside. She knew she shouldn’t have read it, but the few words written had already taken root. She felt an urgent need to know more. She knew she would have to come back and read it again.

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