suspicious - Story 145588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The karaoke bar was a haze of flashing lights and off-key singing. Then, the music started. Her song. He recognized the specific note. He watched the singer. A guy, clearly drunk, was making a complete mess of it.

He gripped his beer bottle tighter. He knew he'd never released this particular song to the world. It was a private work, only meant for a very small circle. How did this person know?

He felt a burning need to confront him, to demand an explanation. He felt a rising heat.

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