suspicious - Story 145430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Interesting," Daniel murmured, a wry smile playing on his lips. He ran his thumb over the embossed seal on the invitation, his eyes narrowed. He was a man who prized control, and this felt like a disruption.

He tossed the invitation onto the counter and poured himself a glass of water. He needed to find out who was behind this. The people involved, their motives. He had a bad feeling about the whole thing.

He took a slow sip, his gaze drifting out the window. The invitation hung in the air, a threat and a promise intertwined. He knew he wouldn’t be able to ignore it.

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