suspicious - Story 145946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, are you alright?” Emily called from the living room. James had been working in his study for hours, a unusual behavior for a Sunday. A wave of unease washed over her. She knew James worked on his side projects, but this felt different.

She walked towards the study. The door was slightly ajar. She saw his laptop screen, quickly covered up with a large hand. His shoulders were tense, his usual relaxed posture replaced with stiffness.

She came into the room. He gave her an unconvincing smile. "Just… brainstorming," he said, gesturing vaguely at the screen. She looked for a glimpse of what he was doing, trying to discern what he meant. Later, she went back. It was his novel, detailing their lives together, but with a strangely altered perspective.

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