suspicious - Story 145626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew something was off. The moment Ms. Chen, his music teacher, followed him on Spotify, a wave of discomfort washed over him. He deleted all his playlists.

He felt trapped and monitored and like his privacy had been invaded. Every time he saw her in the hallway, he tensed. He started taking a different route to avoid her.

He tried to shake it off, to chalk it up to anxiety, but a persistent unease clung to him. He found himself avoiding his favorite songs, afraid they somehow contained an unwanted message.

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