suspicious - Story 145857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the living room as Chloe studied her sister’s list. “Become a veterinarian.” Her sister, terrified of animals. The words felt disconnected.

Her fingers felt numb, and she took a deep, involuntary breath. “Travel the world.” Her sister was terrified of flying. She started to doubt everything. It had all been an act.

She felt a mounting sense of foreboding, a feeling of being trapped in a slowly closing box. She re-read each item, searching for a hint, a clue, anything to make sense of the situation. Her skin prickled.

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