suspicious - Story 145943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of coffee permeated the apartment. Amelia found Mark at the kitchen table, hunched over his laptop. He always looked so relaxed in the mornings. But today, the air felt charged. His usual friendly smile was absent, replaced by a tight, strained expression.

She poured herself a cup and sat down opposite him. "Anything good on the screen?" she asked, trying for a light tone. He jumped, spilling a little of his own coffee. "Just… emails," he mumbled, quickly closing the laptop.

Later, while he was in the shower, the urge was overpowering. She knew she shouldn’t, but she couldn't help herself. The laptop was still there, open on the table. She lifted the screen. It was a file he had been working on. The main character had her name, and described her quirks, habits, and secrets with a disturbing level of accuracy.

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