suspicious - Story 145816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words swimming before his eyes. *Your appointment with Dr. Emily Carter is scheduled for Tuesday.* Emily Carter. He knew that name. He knew that face. His heart thudded in his chest, a frantic drum against his ribs.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action startling. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. This had to be some kind of elaborate prank. He picked up his phone, his fingers hovering over the delete button.

He couldn't bring himself to do it. The meeting was a bad idea, he knew it. He just couldn't resist.

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