suspicious - Story 145426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A reunion? After all this time?” John scoffed, tossing the invitation onto his desk. He leaned back in his chair, folding his arms. The invitation’s arrival felt like an unwelcome intrusion.

He drummed his fingers on the desk, his gaze flitting around his office. He couldn't help but wonder what the others were hoping to achieve. They weren’t known for their generosity of spirit.

He thought of the things he had left unsaid. The grudges. The unspoken rivalries. It felt as if he could feel their stares.

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