suspicious - Story 145835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight danced across the shadows of the living room, reflecting in the polished wood of the desk. He hadn’t noticed the key, buried in the back of the drawer.

The online banking screen was open, the cursor blinking expectantly. The name of the account wasn't hers. It wasn't the joint account. The balance… it was shocking. A sharp pain bloomed in her chest.

He should be home any minute. She quickly shut down the laptop, her hands shaking. She could still smell the faint aroma of his cologne from where he had been sitting earlier that morning.

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