suspicious - Story 145863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, isn't that just precious," Ms. Davies muttered, her voice tight. The gift – a beautifully bound, leather-covered journal – sat on her kitchen counter, accompanied by a basket of gourmet treats. It was from Emily Carter, a student she recalled as being particularly…challenging. The note was filled with gushing praise, mentioning how her English lessons "changed her life." Ms. Davies’ lips pressed into a thin line.

She circled the kitchen island, her gaze darting from the basket to the journal, back and forth. She opened a cupboard and grabbed a pair of rubber gloves, pulling them on with deliberate slowness. She picked up the journal, flipping through the blank pages. Each word of the note had felt cloying, unearned. She placed it carefully back on the counter, next to the basket, and walked away.

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