suspicious - Story 145169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart began to race as she saw him. He was supposed to be in another city. The casual wave was too broad, the smile too wide. She felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear into the crowd. Instead, she stood frozen, the warmth of the room suddenly replaced with the coldness of dread. She kept her voice even when she spoke, but the tremor in her hands gave her away. She could feel his gaze on her, and it felt like a spotlight on a crime scene.

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