suspicious - Story 145448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the dorm room seemed to amplify the silence. Michael felt a tremor of unease as he surveyed the room. He had left his journal on the desk. He hadn’t been back in hours. Now, it was turned over and resting closed. He glanced at his roommate, Kevin, who was pretending to read a textbook.

Michael's gut twisted. He approached the desk slowly. He picked up the journal, noticing a faint indentation on the cover, as if something had been pressed against it. He flipped it open, scanning the last few entries. He had written about his anxieties regarding a test. He could swear the writing looked ever so slightly different. He began to feel quite disturbed.

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