suspicious - Story 145938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations, a dull, unremarkable pink, were like a bad omen. He hadn't received flowers in years. They sat on his desk, next to his computer, a bright, unwelcome intrusion into his workspace.

He stared at them. They seemed to mock him. He slowly turned in his chair, towards the window. He was sure he saw someone.

He got up and locked the door. He was in danger, even if he didn't understand the scope of it. He began to check the windows, carefully, methodically.

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