suspicious - Story 145526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a cold sweat on his palms. He'd been looking forward to meeting his favorite author, Evelyn Hayes, at the book signing. Then he saw the damning blog post, linking her new novel to his forgotten college thesis. His initial excitement evaporated.

He tried to focus on his surroundings: the bustling bookstore, the expectant faces, the gleaming cover of Hayes's novel. He found it difficult to breathe, feeling suffocated in the crowded space. His hands clenched into fists.

He saw Hayes emerge, a radiant smile on her face. Her eyes met his, and he felt a tremor run through him. He found himself backing away, his heart pounding. The idol he'd built for years, the inspiration he'd drawn from her work – it was crumbling before his eyes.

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