suspicious - Story 145815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the elevator was thick with his own nervous energy. He ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing down the spikes. The name on the directory, "Olivia Pierce, PhD," glared at him. He hadn't seen her in twenty years, but the memories of her sneering face were as fresh as yesterday.

He swallowed hard as the elevator doors opened. Each step down the hallway amplified the sound of his own heartbeat. The building was quiet, sterile, each footstep an echo of the past.

He reached the door, hesitating. He could turn back, make an excuse. But curiosity, or perhaps something darker, kept him rooted in place. He knocked, the sound like a drumbeat of doom.

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