suspicious - Story 145995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian had pointed it out, the librarian, a woman he knew casually from his frequent visits. "Isn't this yours, honey?" she'd asked, gesturing to the computer screen. He’d nearly choked on his coffee. His application essay, displayed online, complete with a picture of him from a high school yearbook.

He forced a smile. "Oh, yeah," he stammered, his voice sounding thin. He found himself avoiding eye contact, and his palms began to sweat. He had always been private, a quiet observer. The essay, however, was about his childhood. The vulnerability he had poured into it was now on display for anyone and everyone.

He excused himself quickly and walked out of the library, the air feeling suddenly thick and heavy. A thought drifted into his head that he couldn't quite bring himself to express. He quickened his pace.

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