suspicious - Story 145177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek black briefcase sat on the passenger seat, a silent sentinel in the car. It wasn't the briefcase itself that set Eleanor on edge, but the air of secrecy surrounding it. Michael, her husband, had started bringing it to work every day. He was a "marketing executive" now, he said.

He'd become more distant, his phone constantly glued to his ear. He was working longer hours. He wouldn't meet her gaze. She was starting to feel like a stranger in her own life.

She reached for the briefcase, her fingers trembling. She hesitated. Curiosity warred with the rising tide of fear. She unzipped it. It was full of papers, dense with complicated charts and graphs. She felt a wave of dizziness, and then, a slow, creeping nausea.

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