suspicious - Story 145523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup rattled in Clara’s hand as she stared at the screen. Her pulse quickened. She'd been a devoted follower of Gareth Blackwood, his gritty realism and sharp dialogue her guiding stars. Now, an online article – pointing out glaring parallels between Blackwood's early short stories and her own unpublished collection – had shattered her world.

Clara felt a growing heat behind her eyes, a prelude to tears. She swiped between the article and her own manuscript. The evidence mounted, each line of text a hammer blow to her belief. Her breath came in shallow, rapid bursts. She wanted to scream, to deny it, but the chilling evidence felt irrefutable.

She felt a compelling urge to delete everything, to erase her own work. The inspiration, once a shining beacon, now felt tainted. The world around her seemed to blur, and she slumped back into her chair, her body heavy with a sudden and unexpected weariness.

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