suspicious - Story 145124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room's stale air suddenly felt oppressive. It was the lack of specifics that bothered Thomas the most. His flight to the gallery opening of his friend's art was delayed. “Mechanical issues” – the words echoed in his mind, empty of meaning. His gut twisted into a knot.

He paced the length of the gate area, his gaze scanning the other travelers. They all seemed so calm, so unconcerned. This was wrong, wasn't it? He felt a deep-seated apprehension that grew with each passing minute.

He found himself staring at a maintenance worker, his face obscured by a cap. He noticed him talking to someone on his phone, then glancing quickly towards the gate. Thomas’s heart began to race. It all felt like a carefully constructed scene.

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