suspicious - Story 145624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the notification and froze, a chill settling over him. Mr. Henderson, his science teacher, had followed him on Facebook. Mark felt a sudden urge to erase everything, scrub his account clean.

He quickly went through his posts, his old ones. Nothing incriminating, just the typical teenage banter. Still, he felt an undeniable urge to rewrite his history.

At dinner, he found himself explaining to his parents about the issue. His voice was unusually high and shaky. He ate little, his eyes darting around the room, always checking the door.

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