suspicious - Story 145660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a familiar tightening in his chest. The carefully worded excuse for missing his daughter’s birthday party, intended for his boss, had been accidentally sent to his daughter. The immediate response: "Why?" He felt a wave of shame.

He sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of his actions pressing down on him. He pictured his daughter's face, her disappointment, and the knowledge that he'd failed her. He rubbed his temples, a headache beginning to form. He felt a deep sense of wrong.

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