suspicious - Story 145676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around David as Professor Olsen broke the news. He felt a wave of cold wash over him, despite the warmth of the sun streaming through the window. He was a good professor, why would he leave? The details were murky, the phrasing evasive. David's jaw clenched.

He found himself scrutinizing Olsen’s face, searching for any flicker of truth, any indication of what was really going on. The easy smiles felt forced, the casual conversation strained. David felt an internal pressure, like a coiled spring ready to snap.

Later, David lingered near the parking lot, watching Olsen's car. He did not know why. He wanted to know where he was going. He wanted to understand. He recorded his license plate.

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