suspicious - Story 145495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, jolting Leo from his fitful sleep. His invention, a device to combat global warming, had been rejected; he was told that the technology already existed. It was his dream, his life's work. He answered the phone, his voice a gravelly whisper. The man on the other end was too eager, offering a deal for the patent. Leo hesitated, the weight of the situation crushing him. His palms began to sweat. He agreed to meet, a knot forming in his stomach. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a profound sense of wrongness. The man's words, the way he spoke, it all felt fabricated, built to deceive.

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