suspicious - Story 145121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering airport monitor seemed to mock Amelia. Her flight to her brother’s wedding was delayed indefinitely. A cold sweat slicked her palms, despite the frigid air conditioning. She replayed the phone call from the airline representative – the vague explanation about “unexpected maintenance” felt thin, almost rehearsed. Her gaze darted around the boarding area, scrutinizing every face, every hurried movement. A low thrum of anxiety vibrated in her chest.

Amelia clenched her jaw, her gaze fixed on the closed gate. She was almost certain something wasn’t right. The vague explanation and the lack of updates felt like someone was hiding something. The groom's texts were getting shorter, laced with a forced joviality that grated on her nerves. This whole thing felt manufactured.

She pulled out her phone and started scrolling through the airline’s website, searching for any other flights that might get her there. Nothing. Her stomach churned. This was too convenient, too perfectly timed.

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