suspicious - Story 145862 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Mr. Henderson's apartment, mirroring the turmoil inside him. A large, ornately framed photograph arrived in the mail, sent from a former student, Marcus. The photo depicted Marcus smiling broadly, standing in front of a sprawling, unfamiliar mansion. He’d been a quiet, almost invisible student, and now, apparently, wealthy. The accompanying note was short: "Thank you, Mr. Henderson." Gratitude seemed unlikely from someone so reserved, so private.

He leaned closer, squinting at the image. The building in the background was new, ostentatious. He felt a prickly sensation crawling across his skin. He set the photo down on his dusty coffee table. He walked over to the window, the rain’s drumming somehow failing to calm him. He felt an urge to run a background check on Marcus, though he couldn't explain why.

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