suspicious - Story 145396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't be silly," Charles said aloud to the empty room. He'd found the note in a tattered edition of "Hamlet." The script was elegant, but the message, brief and unsettling. He felt a prickly sensation at the back of his neck.

He paced the confines of his small apartment, the letter clutched in his hand. He’d lived here for years, but suddenly, the familiar space felt alien, somehow off. The sound of a car passing outside made him jump.

He needed to understand the hidden meaning. He felt as though he’d stumbled into someone else's secret, a secret they didn’t intend him to find. He decided to find out who had sent the letter.

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