suspicious - Story 145130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the wall, his arms crossed, watching the clock tick by. His flight to the business merger was delayed. The reason provided was vague and evasive. An uneasy feeling coiled in his stomach.

He was annoyed at this point, but as the minutes turned into hours, it was replaced by a different sensation. He checked his phone repeatedly, re-reading the text messages from his associates. Something was not right.

He found himself scrutinizing the employees. Their demeanor felt too casual, too relaxed. He could not shake the feeling that he was a pawn in a larger game. The game’s rules were unknown to him, but he felt he was meant to lose.

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