suspicious - Story 145168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the undercurrent of unspoken expectations. A strange feeling of apprehension washed over Olivia. The way he approached her with such feigned nonchalance made her skin crawl. He'd been polite, almost too much, his words measured, his actions deliberate. She found herself watching him closely, cataloging every nuance of expression, every subtle shift of posture. It was all a little too perfect. She knew it, and yet, she couldn't tear her gaze away.

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