suspicious - Story 145547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic pulse in Michael's temples intensified with each passing day. He was becoming less and less comfortable. His son, Leo, had become withdrawn. He was always on his phone, always texting.

One evening, he was sitting in his home office, working late, when he heard a notification. It was Leo's phone, which he'd left on the kitchen counter. His curiosity, a coiled spring, finally snapped. He looked.

The screen displayed a message. It was a code of some kind. He didn't understand it, but the sender was a name he'd never heard before. Michael felt a sudden chill, a sense of falling. He didn't hesitate. He started to look through Leo's other messages.

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