suspicious - Story 145856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Climb Mount Everest,” Mark muttered, his brow furrowed as he read his uncle's bucket list. His uncle, who wouldn’t even walk to the corner store. It was ludicrous. It felt off.

He felt a wave of nausea. He felt the need to sit down. He ran his hand through his hair. “Run a marathon.” His uncle's idea of exercise was changing channels on the TV. He glanced around the room.

He grabbed the list, crumpling it slightly. Each item seemed to mock him. A tremor coursed through his body. He wanted to scream.

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