suspicious - Story 145850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anonymous text arrived at 3:00 AM. "Keep it down." The words, stark and accusatory, burned into my vision. I felt a jolt of anger. Then, a more potent sensation.

I threw back the covers and got out of bed, every muscle tense. My window faced my neighbor, the perpetually cheerful Mrs. Peterson. Her lights were off, as usual. But something felt wrong.

I tiptoed to the window, peering out into the darkness. I saw something move in her garden. I held my breath, every sense hyper-aware.

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