suspicious - Story 145716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice, his jaw clenched. He’d never felt this exposed before. He walked over to the cabinet under the sink and opened it. He pulled out the box of cleaning supplies and started scrubbing at the walls.

He had always been meticulous about keeping his apartment clean, but now he scrubbed with furious energy, as if he could erase something. He kept glancing at the door, expecting someone to burst in at any moment.

Later that evening, he checked all the blinds. Then, he got out a flashlight and did a thorough inspection of every corner of his apartment.

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