suspicious - Story 145127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding area was a cacophony of sound, but for Emily, it was silent. The announcement about the delay to her cousin’s destination wedding barely registered. She felt as though she'd been plunged into a nightmare. Her gut twisted and tightened.

Her attention was drawn to two men talking near a window. She watched them, her eyes narrowed. Their low murmurs and furtive glances at her made her feel uneasy.

The more she thought about it, the less sense the situation made. She felt a chill, as if someone was deliberately keeping her from her destination. The air was thick with unspoken intentions.

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