suspicious - Story 145811 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room smelled of artificial citrus and regret. Sarah fiddled with the strap of her purse, the leather cool and clammy against her palm. Across from her, a framed picture of Dr. Evelyn Reed smiled with unsettling sincerity. Evelyn Reed. The name, and the face, felt like a joke. The woman who’d tormented her throughout elementary school, a purveyor of playground cruelty, now a keeper of secrets? It didn’t compute. Her stomach churned.

She glanced at the door, then back at the photo. The smile in the image felt like a deliberate taunt. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple.

The door creaked open. "Sarah?" The voice was familiar, but softer, gentler. Sarah's breath hitched. She forced a smile.

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