suspicious - Story 145427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled as it fell from Karen’s fingers. She sat frozen on the couch, her breath catching in her throat. The vibrant colors of the flyer seemed to mock her. The glossy paper felt cold against her skin.

She hadn't thought about high school in years. The memories, once vivid, had faded into a blurred tapestry of youthful angst and forgotten dreams. Now, they were back, sharp and insistent.

She leaned forward, her elbows on her knees. This was all too convenient. She grabbed her phone, her fingers hovering over the keypad.

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