suspicious - Story 145713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. An eviction notice, citing a breach of contract she was certain she hadn’t committed. Her breath hitched. She scrolled through the document again, highlighting phrases, circling dates.

Her phone buzzed, and she jumped. It was her neighbor, Mrs. Gable, asking if she’d seen the new security cameras. A shiver ran down her spine. Mrs. Gable was always so chatty, but today, her voice had been a little too sweet.

She spent the rest of the evening barricading herself in her bedroom. She pushed her dresser in front of the door, a futile gesture that only served to amplify her unease. What was truly going on?

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