suspicious - Story 145826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a mistake,” Michael muttered, staring at the schematic. The blueprints, identical to his, sat on the table. A chilling feeling ran through his bones. He knew this design was his.

He replayed the past week in his mind. Sarah, his teammate, had been exceptionally keen to understand the finer details of his plans. Now, this.

Michael abruptly stood, knocking over his chair. It crashed to the floor. The sound, sharp and jarring, filled the quiet room. He had to figure out what was happening. He didn't trust Sarah for a second.

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