suspicious - Story 145148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the rehearsal room was thick with unspoken tension. Professor Steiner, the director, was gone. No final notes, no final bow. Just a curt email announcing his retirement and a new director taking his place. The theatre group, usually buzzing with excitement, was now a portrait of uncertainty.

The actors exchanged worried glances, murmurs rippling through the room. They missed him. They needed him. I watched them and felt the unease rising. This wasn’t Steiner. He would have loved this part.

I approached the stage, a sudden feeling washing over me. I needed to understand what had happened. I had to know the truth. The spotlight felt cold on my face.

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