suspicious - Story 145621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed, a tiny vibration against Maya's phone. Mrs. Peterson, her English teacher, had requested to follow her on Instagram. Maya's breath hitched. She stared at the screen, heart thudding a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

Her fingers hovered over the accept button. What was she looking at? Why? Maya scrolled through Mrs. Peterson's profile. Mostly cat pictures and inspirational quotes. Normal enough, except… why *her*?

She glanced around the library, suddenly aware of every shadow and whispered conversation. A prickle ran down her spine. Maya slowly put her phone back in her bag, a strange feeling settling in her gut.

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