suspicious - Story 145161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute trembled in Amelia’s hand as she watched Liam approach. He was laughing, a sound she hadn’t heard directed at her in years. A knot twisted in her stomach. He was speaking animatedly to the best man, and their close proximity sent a chill down her spine. Why now? Why at Chloe's wedding? She took a large gulp of the sparkling wine, hoping to calm the churning in her gut. She noted the way he kept glancing in her direction, even when he was ostensibly engaged in conversation. It felt deliberate, calculated.

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