suspicious - Story 145125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Sarah. The constant hum of the airport faded into the background as she took in the situation. Her flight to her daughter’s graduation was delayed. The delay was blamed on weather, but the sky outside was crystal clear. She felt a profound sense of wrongness.

Her fingers fidgeted with the zipper of her purse. Every detail felt wrong, out of alignment. The gate agent's smile was too wide, too practiced. The announcements were robotic and unfeeling. Something felt deliberately concealed, hidden in plain sight.

The longer she waited, the more frantic her thoughts became. She imagined her daughter, proud and alone, waiting for her. Her nails dug into her palms.

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