suspicious - Story 145820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the office was torture, his knuckles white on the steering wheel. He kept replaying the past in his head, every slight, every insult. Now she was supposed to help him? He parked the car, the engine cutting with a decisive chug.

He walked toward the entrance, each footfall heavier than the last. He glanced around, as if expecting to be ambushed. The world felt dangerous, full of hidden threats.

He reached the door, the nameplate gleaming in the midday sun. His mouth was dry. He took a breath, pushed the door open, and stepped into the unknown.

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