suspicious - Story 145428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, hell no.” Mike spat the words, shoving the invitation across the kitchen table. His wife raised an eyebrow, but he ignored her. He was already pacing, a storm brewing behind his eyes.

He remembered the cliques, the gossip, the petty cruelty. He remembered the feeling of being an outsider. Why would he want to relive that?

He glanced at the calendar. He needed to know what they were up to, he realized. But he did not want to show his hand.

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