suspicious - Story 145527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she read the essay, it felt as though the oxygen in Maya's small apartment had been replaced with something thick and suffocating. The essay, a meticulous analysis of the similarities between Elias Thorne's novels and her own, felt like a physical weight on her chest.

She felt a dull ache in her temples, a persistent pressure that wouldn't abate. She picked up her well-worn copy of Thorne's *City of Shadows*, then slammed it back down on her desk, the sound echoing in the silent room. Her hands trembled.

She stared at her laptop screen, feeling a growing, gnawing sense of violation. The words, the characters, the stories she had poured her heart into – all had been touched by this unwanted revelation. She felt a profound sense of unease settle over her like a shroud.

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