suspicious - Story 145524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in Leo’s study grew heavy, stifling. He reread the comparison: his short story "The Crimson Sky," and the latest chapter from his literary hero, Alistair Finch. The parallels were chilling, unsettling. A cold wave swept over him.

He dropped the printout onto his desk, the paper fluttering softly. His throat felt constricted, making it hard to swallow. He had always held Finch in the highest regard, but now a growing discomfort stirred within him. Something was not quite right.

Leo got up from his chair, walking to the window. The world outside seemed distant, unreal. He rubbed his forehead, his fingers tracing the shape of his eyebrows. He didn't know what to do or how to process the information before him.

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