suspicious - Story 145996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a coffee in the morning and looked down at his phone. The link had been shared by a classmate he barely knew. His essay, plastered across a blog, a blog dedicated to sharing “inspirational narratives.” He wasn't sure how to feel.

He reread the words, the words he had spent so long perfecting. It described the summer he spent with his uncle, the summer that changed everything. He noticed, as he reread, that some of the details weren't entirely accurate. He began to feel a creeping unease, a cold knot tightening in his stomach.

He threw the coffee cup in the trash. He needed to understand how this happened. He texted his old professor, but quickly deleted the message. He was going to handle this on his own.

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