suspicious - Story 145953 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather-bound journal was the first thing Maya saw. She flipped through the brittle pages, the ink faded but legible. Intimate details of her life, described in a handwriting she didn’t know. Except… it was *her* life. Her childhood dog's name, her fear of thunderstorms, her secret crush on a boy named Daniel. A wave of unease washed over her.

Why couldn't she place this? Everything felt…off. It was as if someone had perfectly replicated her life, but with a slight, unnerving tremor of distortion. She closed the journal with a snap. A chill permeated the air.

She paced the small room, the dusty air filling her lungs. Was this some kind of prank? A cruel joke? Or something far more complex? The questions swirled in her head, forming a disquieting vortex. It felt as if she was standing on the precipice of something unknown.

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