suspicious - Story 145962 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through David. He’d found the crumpled piece of paper in Sarah’s jacket pocket. Her handwriting. A list, scrawled with a frantic energy. He read each item with a growing sense of unease. “Learn to play the ukulele.” “Spend a week in Bali.” “Tell the truth.” His stomach churned.

He traced the words with his finger, his pulse quickening. He reread them, over and over, as if the meaning of it was escaping him. He paced the living room, agitated, feeling a knot of uncertainty twist within him.

Sarah’s late hours at the office suddenly took on a new light. Were her explanations genuine? Were they not? He kept imagining her, elsewhere, doing these things without him. He wanted to ask her, but the words wouldn't come. He didn’t trust his voice.

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