suspicious - Story 145714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Evicted?" Michael’s voice cracked as he read the words. He leaned back in his chair, the notice trembling in his hand. He'd paid his rent on time, every month. There had to be a mistake.

He walked over to the window and stared out at the street below. He saw the usual hustle and bustle, the mail carrier, the school bus, the dog walkers. Everything seemed normal, maddeningly normal. But the knot in his chest tightened.

Later, he started rummaging through his old boxes, looking for his lease. He couldn't find it. He felt like he was forgetting something crucial, but what?

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