suspicious - Story 145123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt different. Not just the usual noise and bustle, but something...off. Claire drummed her fingers on the armrest of the plastic chair, the rhythmic tapping a nervous tick. Her grandmother’s birthday party was supposed to start in two hours. The flight to her grandmother’s was delayed, again.

A prickle of alarm ran down her spine. The information on the departure board seemed deliberately vague. The announcement was bland, devoid of any genuine apology. Claire started to scrutinize the other passengers, wondering who they were, where they were going.

She felt a weight in her chest, a growing sense that someone was pulling strings. Had something happened? She couldn’t shake the image of her grandmother, alone and waiting. She needed to know.

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