suspicious - Story 145812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his glasses, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he'd retained. The nameplate on the door, "Mark Harrison, MA, LPC," glittered under the fluorescent light. His knuckles were white against the worn leather of his briefcase. This couldn't be happening. His old tormentor, now a… what? A healer? He felt the blood drain from his face.

He paused, then took a deep breath, steeling himself. He knocked, the sound echoing in the sterile hallway. Each step he took towards the door felt like a step back into the fifth grade. He'd thought he had put all of this behind him.

The door swung inwards. “Mark?” A polite smile, a handshake offered. A predatory calm settled over him.

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