suspicious - Story 145157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory dinner with Alex felt wrong. The restaurant, filled with the buzz of contented chatter, felt oppressive. She kept glancing at Alex. He was animated, recounting details of the interview, his voice a little too loud, his laughter a little too frequent.

She’d spent weeks preparing. He hadn't. She’d known the job description inside and out. His interview felt… effortless. She noticed the way he had the hiring manager's phone number as the meal ended.

A dull ache throbbed behind her eyes. She picked at her food, the flavors suddenly bland and unappealing. Every word he spoke felt like a subtle dig, a reminder of her loss.

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