The librarian, Iris, ran a hand over the worn cover of the book. The same book, the same notes, sat on her coworker, David's desk. She had spent countless hours researching this volume. The feeling of… something… grew in her chest.

Iris felt her mouth go dry. David had been unusually friendly of late, always eager to discuss their shared projects. Now, it was clear that they were sharing more than projects.

She stood abruptly, pushing her chair back. The silence in the library felt oppressive. The air was thick with unspoken questions. She had to understand.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284