suspicious - Story 145128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee and desperation permeated the air. David felt a growing pressure in his chest. His flight to the job interview had been delayed, again. The excuse they offered seemed to crumble the instant you looked at it.

He walked past the closed gate. He felt a nagging feeling that something was amiss. He ran his hand through his hair, then began to pace restlessly.

He stopped in front of the window, staring out at the empty runway. The calm of the scene felt deeply unsettling. Why was this happening? The pieces weren't adding up.

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