suspicious - Story 145126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The departure board flashed the same message: Delayed. His grandfather’s funeral was scheduled for tomorrow. This was not supposed to happen. He felt a deep sense of wrongness.

John approached the information desk. The attendant's eyes were evasive. The explanation, a generic excuse about “operational difficulties”, rang hollow. He kept searching for the truth.

John walked away from the desk, unable to stop himself from glancing back. He caught the attendant speaking to someone on the phone, then gesturing towards him. A wave of dread washed over him.

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