suspicious - Story 145422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah crumpled the invitation, her fingers leaving a series of angry indentations. She smoothed it out, a small smile playing on her lips before quickly disappearing. The glossy photo of the smiling faces from their graduating class felt jarringly artificial. Everything felt wrong.

She stared out the window, at the rain slicking the pavement below. The past was best left buried, she felt. The invitation had come at the worst possible time. She rubbed her arms, suddenly chilled, as if the air conditioning had been cranked.

"Well, well, well," she muttered, the words barely audible. She reached for her phone, a knot forming in her stomach. Someone was definitely planning something. She was sure of it.

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