suspicious - Story 145400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he read the words, John felt his skin prickle. He'd found the letter in a copy of "The Picture of Dorian Gray." It was like he was being taunted. He rubbed his arms, suddenly chilled.

The words swam before his eyes, each sentence a cryptic clue. He read it again and again. He glanced at the closed window, then at the locked door.

His heart thumped erratically. He tucked the letter in the book again, deciding to burn the pages. He suddenly felt exposed in his apartment. He was being watched. He'd seen enough.

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