suspicious - Story 145171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt wrong in her hand. A rooftop party, hosted by Liam? For his "financial consulting" colleagues? He’d always downplayed his job, claiming it was boring. Now, a swanky soiree with a dress code and a guest list that included venture capitalists and tech titans? A knot tightened in Maya's stomach as she read the shimmering, embossed card again. She took a deep breath, smoothing the silk skirt she'd chosen. This felt like a test, a carefully constructed performance.

Her pulse quickened as she spotted Liam across the crowded terrace. He was laughing, animated, gesturing with a glass of champagne. His tailored suit was a stark contrast to his usual jeans and band t-shirts. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. She watched him, an unwelcome tension gripping her shoulders.

"Maya! You made it!" He rushed over, his smile wide, almost too wide. He smelled of expensive cologne she'd never smelled before. His eyes flickered across her face, assessing. She forced a smile. "Wouldn't miss it."

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