suspicious - Story 145993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was from her former English teacher, Ms. Harding, her subject line reading “A Touch of Nostalgia.” Inside, a link to a website showcasing exemplary college essays. There, at the top of the list, was *her* essay. A smile, initially forming on her face at the recognition, quickly faded.

She leaned back in her chair, the sudden silence of the office pressing in on her. The essay about her childhood fear of storms, about the small, cracked window in her bedroom… it felt like a ghost, a whisper from a past she was trying to outrun. The website mentioned the essay was selected by Ms. Harding and a committee of educators.

A feeling of unease washed over her. She knew a few of her classmates would be ecstatic. Others she hadn't spoken to since graduation. She went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face. Her reflection seemed unfamiliar.

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