suspicious - Story 145966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notepad, its pristine pages a stark contrast to the chaos swirling inside him. He’d found it on the kitchen counter, open, with the ink still drying. His wife, Chloe, was usually meticulous. The list was a collection of things he knew nothing about. Adventures. Risks. Departures.

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt like he was standing on shifting sand.

Every casual comment, every innocent phrase, suddenly sounded loaded with meaning. He tried to dismiss his thoughts as irrational, but the feeling lingered, a constant, unwelcome companion. The air around him felt thin, difficult to breathe.

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