suspicious - Story 145442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza couldn't shake the feeling that she was being watched. Her stomach churned as she sat on her bed, fiddling with the frayed edge of her duvet. Her journal lay on her nightstand, a familiar comfort. Except, today, it felt like a trap. Across the room, Chloe, her roommate, hummed a cheerful tune while organizing her closet. Too cheerful, maybe? Eliza found herself unable to trust her.

She picked up her journal, its cover cool against her palm. She flipped to a random page and noticed a small, almost invisible crease in the paper, a crease that hadn't been there earlier. A coldness spread through her. "Chloe, did you... did you happen to touch my journal?" she asked, her voice tight. Chloe looked up, her smile faltering slightly. "No? Why would I?" Her denial felt too quick, too sharp.

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