suspicious - Story 145640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, the air thick with the scent of old paper. Leo, searching for something to read, found a worn envelope tucked inside a forgotten book. The letter, addressed to a former lover, revealed a deep insecurity and a desperate need for validation. He felt nothing like the man who had penned those words.

His breathing grew shallow. He felt his pulse quicken. The words felt like a betrayal of his present self. He didn't want to know this.

He went back home, threw the letter into the fireplace, and struck a match. The paper flared, the flames consuming the words that felt wrong. He stared until only ash remained.

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