suspicious - Story 145986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations!” the email proclaimed. Amelia's stomach churned. The cheerful tone felt alien, mocking. What exactly was she supposed to be congratulating? The end of her affordable rent?

She spent the afternoon glued to her window, watching the construction workers next door. What were they building? Why now? Every clang of a hammer, every screech of machinery, filled her with apprehension.

She tried to rationalize it, to tell herself she was overreacting. But a growing, unshakeable sense of unease settled in her chest like a stone. She felt she was losing something, though she couldn't name what.

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