suspicious - Story 145655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a tingling sensation down her spine, a prickle of discomfort she couldn't dismiss. Her intended text to her sister, hinting about their shared secret, had inadvertently gone to their estranged mother. The response, "Interesting," was a cold, terse reply. She shivered, despite the warmth of the summer sun.

She stared out the window, watching the leaves rustle in the gentle breeze. She felt exposed, vulnerable. Her mother's tone was all she needed to be reminded of the past. Her gut twisted. A shadow seemed to fall over the cheerful garden.

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