suspicious - Story 145424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reunion?" Emily asked, her voice laced with skepticism. She held the invitation at arm's length, as if it might bite. She traced the cursive font with a fingertip. Everything about it felt… off.

She glanced at her reflection in the mirror. Time had been kind, she thought, and she wasn't sure what she was being asked to do. The thought of being in the same room with those people filled her with unease.

She knew she couldn't simply ignore it. The need to know what they were up to was too strong. She had to learn the reasons for the reunion.

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