suspicious - Story 145964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark felt the cold seep into his bones as he saw the notebook. It was tucked between the pages of a textbook in the back of her car, the handwriting was definitely hers. He’d been looking for a pen, nothing more. A feeling of dread took hold of him. A list of things to do before she turns forty. Each item was a declaration of independence, a step away from their life together.

He found himself scrutinizing the places she went, the conversations she had. Every interaction felt amplified, imbued with a new significance.

He tried to act normally, to appear unconcerned. But inside, he felt a frantic urgency to understand, to somehow… control? The anxiety clawed at him, a constant, gnawing presence.

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