suspicious - Story 145496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen, the advertisement for the "Instant Seed Spreader" flashing before his eyes. It was his idea, his design, his passion. The ad was smooth, confident, as the company celebrated their successful launch. He clenched his fists, the knuckles white. He could feel his heartbeat quicken, a frantic drum against his ribs. He recalled the industry conference, the friendly handshakes, the business cards exchanged. One man, in particular, kept asking questions, taking notes, seeming overly interested in the inner workings of his creation. Now, he felt exposed, violated.

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