suspicious - Story 145638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was damp, and a single bare bulb cast long, dancing shadows. Liam, going through old boxes, found a letter he'd written to his former business partner, a man he now despised. The letter, filled with flattery and subtle manipulations, was a jarring contrast to his current feelings. He didn't remember the time.

His stomach clenched as he read the obsequious language. It was a calculated performance. He felt a deep sense of wrongness. Each sentence seemed to taunt him.

He went to his office, sat at his desk, and stared out the window. His business partner was still in the building, in his own office. He considered calling him, but didn't. Instead, he crumpled the letter in his hand. The paper crackled.

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