suspicious - Story 145398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What in the world…?" Henry mumbled, staring at the note. He'd purchased the book, "Moby Dick," to try and improve his vocabulary. Now, he regretted it. A strange sensation, like a pressure building behind his eyes, began.

He sat on the park bench, flipping the pages back and forth, as if the book itself held the key. He didn't trust the world anymore. He watched every passerby, expecting a confrontation.

He looked around. The air felt thick, charged. He felt a compelling need to destroy the letter, but something stopped him. The unknown writer had left something behind, and Henry would discover its source.

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