suspicious - Story 145994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment he saw the article, the world felt… wrong. It was his essay, the one he poured his heart and soul into. Now, it was published, and his identity was… well, not *anonymous*. The website gave away more than they should have. His hometown, his high school, a vague reference to the extracurricular activity he was in…

He paced his apartment, the hardwood floor creaking under his steps. His pulse quickened. Had they somehow gotten hold of his transcripts? He’d been so careful about sharing his past, about hiding the bits and pieces he wanted to keep private.

He checked his email again, scrolling for any contact, anything. He felt like he was being watched, even in his own apartment. The feeling intensified as a notification popped up on his phone: a friend from high school had messaged him.

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