suspicious - Story 145715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper, crisp and official-looking, sat on the counter, a silent accusation. This was the first time she had been late with rent in five years. She looked at it again, and her pulse quickened.

She found herself pacing the length of her small living room, her mind racing. Her gaze kept returning to the window, and the empty street outside. Her hands felt clammy.

Suddenly, she grabbed her coat and keys. She had to do something.

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