suspicious - Story 145969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the list from where it had fallen on the kitchen counter. It was written in a hurried scrawl that he'd never seen before, not in her handwriting. A list of goals, dreams, and… escapes. A cold sensation prickled his skin.

He didn't know what to do. His heart felt heavy in his chest. He felt like he was navigating a dark maze.

He went to find her and asked her about the list. He hated his own voice as he asked. He felt sick, he felt lost. He didn’t know how to repair this.

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