suspicious - Story 145423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, addressed in a familiar, loopy handwriting, landed on Mark’s cluttered desk. He picked it up gingerly, like he was handling a venomous creature. The script was too perfect. Every detail seemed meticulously planned, from the crisp paper to the carefully chosen font.

He felt a tightness in his chest as he tore it open. The flyer inside promised a night of nostalgia, but all Mark felt was a cold dread. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was being lured into a trap.

He walked over to his whiskey cabinet, poured himself a shot, and tossed it back. He knew that any information given to him would have to be verified. The invitation’s arrival did not feel like a coincidence.

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