suspicious - Story 145997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: a mention on a popular college blog. The link led him to a page showcasing exemplary essays. There it was, his own, about his time volunteering in a soup kitchen. He couldn't help but feel a sudden flush of irritation.

He felt the muscles in his shoulders tense as he read the comments, some praising his work, others offering… critiques. He wasn't sure what bothered him more: the public display or the realization that they were making assumptions about his motivations.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in his otherwise quiet apartment. He felt a deep need to shut everything down, to withdraw. He wanted to scream.

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