suspicious - Story 145543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message – a simple notification – popped up on Mark’s phone. It was a link, a URL he didn’t recognize, sent from his daughter Emily’s number. He felt a prickly heat rise in his neck. Why would she send him a link to something? He reached for the phone.

He knew he shouldn't, but the temptation was too strong. His hand trembled slightly as he clicked the link. It led to a profile, a carefully curated collection of photos and posts – none of them Emily. The name was different, a playful nickname he didn’t recognize.

His breath hitched. He re-read the profile information. The pictures, however, were of her. His hands felt cold. He dropped the phone onto the kitchen counter. He wanted to go scream.

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