suspicious - Story 145754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apology landed in my lap as I sat at my desk, the paper crinkling in my hand. It was from Leo, my ex-best friend, and I hadn't heard from him since he betrayed my trust in high school. My gut twisted, a tight knot forming in my stomach. The handwriting was different, somehow unfamiliar, and the tone was a little too polished.

He expressed his remorse, citing a "change of heart" and a desire to reconnect. He wanted to meet. The request was phrased politely, but I found myself looking around my office as if I expected an ambush. I looked to the window, the trees swaying in the wind, a gentle calm the complete opposite of what I was feeling.

I crumpled the letter in my fist and threw it in the trash, and my hands started shaking. I rubbed my arms, feeling suddenly chilled. What did he really want?

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