suspicious - Story 145525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Sarah, felt a distinct chill despite the warmth of the room. She was looking at two books: "Whispers of the Willow" by Eleanor Ainsworth, and her own self-published poetry collection, open side-by-side. An online discussion was the source of her unease, and the parallels were undeniable.

She ran a hand through her hair. The familiar scent of old paper and ink usually soothed her, but today it was a source of discomfort. Her stomach churned. A tightness in her chest made her breathing labored.

She sat down heavily, the wooden chair creaking under her weight. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a sudden and crushing realization that something she held sacred had been corrupted. She felt sick.

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