suspicious - Story 145757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As I read the letter, my hands started to tremble. It was from Mark, my former business partner, who had ruined me and disappeared with all the money. My mouth went dry, and I had to force myself to breathe. The words seemed to swim on the page.

He professed his regret, claiming to have been misguided. He wanted to make amends. He suggested a meeting. I felt a surge of adrenaline, my heart pounding in my chest. I looked over my shoulder, as if someone might be standing behind me.

I gripped the letter so tightly, it started to tear. The air felt thick, heavy. I folded the paper in half, then tore it into several pieces and threw them in the wastebasket. I went to the window to breathe some fresh air.

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