suspicious - Story 145153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted bitter, as bitter as the thought that gnawed at Elias. He’d met Ben for coffee after the interviews, and the easy camaraderie they usually shared felt strained, forced. Ben, always jovial, kept avoiding his gaze.

Each answer, each anecdote Ben shared about his interview felt... polished, almost rehearsed. Elias's gut twisted. He looked at Ben's hands, nervously circling around his coffee mug.

Elias couldn’t stop replaying the interview in his head. The way the hiring manager had smiled at Ben's stories, the way he'd seemed to hang on every word. He felt a burning in his chest.

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