suspicious - Story 145622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam felt his stomach clench. Mr. Davies, the history teacher known for his dry wit, was now following him on Twitter. Liam's jaw tightened. He hadn't tweeted anything particularly noteworthy lately, just the usual complaints about homework and the occasional meme.

He scrolled through his feed, checking his privacy settings. Everything seemed in order. A knot formed in his chest. He felt an intense need to scrub his online presence.

Later, in class, Liam found himself avoiding Mr. Davies’ gaze. He felt a gaze drilling into his skull, and the back of his neck began to itch. He kept his head down, tracing patterns on his desk with his pen.

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