suspicious - Story 145172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Daniel. Sarah, his best friend since kindergarten, had always been a nurse. Or so he thought. Now, she was casually mentioning a recent trip to Monaco, a private jet, and a penthouse apartment. She'd been "consulting" for some unnamed pharmaceutical company. He ran a hand through his hair, the dampness sticking to his forehead.

He watched her sip her latte, a delicate silver bracelet glinting on her wrist, a piece he'd never seen before. Her stories felt polished, rehearsed. He’d known her inside and out, her quirks and her insecurities. This new persona felt… alien. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was missing something crucial.

"So, the company," Daniel began, his voice flat. "What exactly does it *do*?" He leaned forward, elbows on the table, trying to catch her eye. Her response was vague, evasive, and he felt a coldness creep into his chest.

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