suspicious - Story 145399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Sarah found the letter, the room seemed to shrink. She was in a second-hand bookstore, browsing for a birthday gift. The folded paper emerged from an early printing of "Little Women." She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

She scanned the shop, her eyes darting between the other patrons. She felt exposed, vulnerable. She quickly hid the letter inside her purse. She felt she could be seen.

She hurried out of the store, the weight of the book and the hidden message a heavy burden. The bright sunshine seemed to mock her. She felt compelled to know who 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