suspicious - Story 145122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the airline employee, the plastic name tag practically vibrating with an artificial sheen. The man's smile felt brittle, strained, and the way he avoided eye contact was incredibly unsettling. Liam’s chest constricted, a feeling of unease settling over him as he listened to the delayed flight explanation. His meeting was critical, a make-or-break deal, and now this.

His hand tightened around his briefcase. The knot in his stomach only grew tighter when he saw the employee subtly wipe his brow. What was he so uncomfortable about? Why did it feel like he was being carefully watched?

Liam leaned closer, his voice low and firm. "Is there any other information? Anything at all?" The employee stammered, offering a pre-written statement, making Liam feel as if he was being fed lines. The air thickened with unspoken words.

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