suspicious - Story 145833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet on the laptop screen swam before me. It was a budget, a detailed and meticulous plan for the month, but it didn't match the reality of our shared finances. There were discrepancies, small ones at first, then larger sums disappearing into a void. I felt a prickling sensation at the back of my neck.

Michael had always been a meticulous man, but this...this felt calculated. I clicked on the "hidden" tab, a feature I'd never noticed before. Rows of numbers, figures, and dates emerged. A different bank, a different name. My stomach churned.

I leaned back in the chair, the office swivel creaking under my sudden weight. I should talk to him, I thought. But the words caught in my throat.

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