suspicious - Story 145730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He re-read the letter, the words echoing in the vast, empty house. The details didn’t match up. The resignation was from a job that his father had never mentioned. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn’t realized he’d inherited.

A wave of heat surged through him. He stood abruptly, pacing the room. The familiar furniture, the faded wallpaper, all seemed to shift, to rearrange themselves into something unknown. He felt a profound sense of instability, of being adrift in a sea of unspoken truths. He had to know the truth.

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