suspicious - Story 145985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was innocuous enough, a notice slipped under the door. But the slick, glossy paper felt wrong, a stark contrast to the worn wood of the door itself. Thomas felt a prickle of discomfort as he read it.

He sat on his couch, staring at the ceiling. Why hadn’t they mentioned this earlier? Was there something they were not saying? He felt a nagging feeling like a tiny pebble in his shoe.

He started keeping the blinds drawn, observing the activity outside from the shadows. The comings and goings of strangers, the hushed conversations on the street corner. Each detail added another layer to the growing weight in his gut.

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