suspicious - Story 145758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate script on the envelope was unfamiliar. It was from Penelope, a childhood friend, with whom I had lost contact after a falling-out during our college years. My brow furrowed as I slit it open, my gut twisting.

Penelope detailed her remorse for her actions, attributing them to youth and insecurities. She claimed to have changed and wished to rebuild our friendship. My skin prickled with goosebumps. The tone felt forced, as if she were reading from a script.

I felt a sudden need to clean the house. I found myself obsessively wiping down surfaces, rearranging furniture. I couldn’t stand still. I was restless. I threw the letter onto the counter and decided to go for a run.

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