suspicious - Story 145425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across David's living room as he opened the invitation. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The glossy photograph of a younger him, surrounded by smiling faces, felt like a cruel joke.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing of his heart. The invitation seemed too perfect. He felt a sense of unease settle over him like a suffocating blanket. Why would anyone want to revisit the past, especially his?

He walked to the window, watching the children playing in the park. His mind was racing, trying to figure out what game they were playing at his expense.

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