suspicious - Story 145998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light felt strange as he sat at his desk. He found the link in his spam folder: a notification from his former high school, informing him his essay had been selected for the “Student Showcase.” He blinked and re-read the email.

He had always been a private person, and the essay had detailed some very personal moments. The ache in his chest intensified as he considered who might read it. He thought of his parents, who had barely been able to understand the depth of his feelings.

He scrolled through the website, his vision blurring. He had the unsettling sensation of being exposed, as though the room was suddenly filled with eyes. He felt a need to escape.

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