suspicious - Story 145702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael adjusted his tie, the knot suddenly feeling tight. The air in the break room felt thick, oppressive. Across the small table, Sarah had just mentioned “Camp Clearwater,” and then, casually, dropped a specific anecdote about a particularly nasty case of poison ivy. Michael remembered that incident. He remembered *everything*.

He took a long sip of his coffee, pretending to not react. His heart began to hammer against his ribs. He felt the blood drain from his face. The story felt… contrived. Too specific.

“That’s… quite the memory,” Michael managed, his voice a strained whisper. Sarah met his gaze, her eyes sparkling with an unsettling glee.

He forced a laugh, but it sounded hollow, brittle. He had to get out of there. He excused himself, citing a pressing email, and practically bolted from the room. He felt a need to double check the locks on his apartment door.

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