suspicious - Story 145942 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found himself unable to relax. Sarah had been acting strangely for weeks. Little things: locking her phone, suddenly taking up journaling, disappearing into the spare bedroom for hours. He tried to brush it off, chalking it up to a new hobby, a change in routine. But the anxiety gnawed at him.

One evening, he was working late at the dining room table, and Sarah went to bed. He went to make himself some tea and, passing her laptop, saw the screen was still on. He hesitated, the urge a powerful force, drawing him in. He glanced around, feeling a quickening of his pulse.

He opened the laptop. A Word document, titled "My Dearest." He took a deep breath. The first lines chilled him. The woman in the story, with his name on her lips, was doing things he knew he hadn't done. Things that felt… intimate.

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