suspicious - Story 145429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a physical weight in Anna's hand. She turned it over, examining the return address with a frown. It was from a place she knew well, and it stirred up unpleasant emotions.

The words "Twenty Year Reunion" seemed to taunt her. She remembered the awkward dances, the whispered secrets, and the sting of unrequited crushes. Why would they want to celebrate that?

She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine. The whole thing smelled wrong. She knew she shouldn’t go, but the curiosity was a strong pull.

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