suspicious - Story 145628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived in the dead of night. From Mr. Olsen, the drama teacher. A simple message, complimenting his recent audition. James felt an odd tingling sensation in his scalp.

He read the email again, and again. It was polite, professional, but the timing felt off. It just felt too…much. He decided he was going to pretend he never got the email.

The next morning, in drama class, James found himself struggling to focus. He felt a knot in his stomach every time Mr. Olsen spoke. He acted nervous and unsure.

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