suspicious - Story 145175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph lay on the counter, a candid shot from Chloe's "business trip" to Italy. It wasn't the picturesque scenery that bothered Ben, but the man beside her. A man he didn't recognize. A man who looked at her with a certain… intimacy. His jaw clenched.

He remembered her elaborate stories about the conferences, the long hours. The way she'd avoid eye contact when she talked about her colleagues. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes as he looked at the picture again.

He slammed his fist on the counter. He grabbed his keys, the metal cold against his palm. He needed answers.

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