suspicious - Story 145155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t know, man,” Liam admitted, his voice barely above a whisper. He and Finn were in the back of the interviewers apartment building, their usual haunt. He watched the back door, and he imagined the hiring manager's smile, the way he'd laugh at Finn's jokes. It had all seemed...convenient.

Finn had claimed he knew nothing about the role. But Liam had overheard a phone conversation the week before the job interviews. Finn was talking to someone about the hiring manager's preferences.

Liam felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He picked at a loose thread on his jeans, a nervous habit. The silence stretched between them, heavy with unspoken accusations. He wanted to scream, to lash out.

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