suspicious - Story 145179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek new sports car parked in front of Greg's apartment building was a stark contrast to the beat-up sedan he'd always driven. Sarah, his friend from college, had always been a waitress. Now, she was telling stories of "stock options" and "venture capital." Greg couldn't shake the unsettling feeling, the one that clung to his insides like a wet wool blanket.

He leaned against the brick wall of the building, arms crossed, watching her get out of the car. Her expensive clothes, her confident stride, her aloof demeanor... none of it felt like her.

"Wow," Greg said, trying to sound impressed. Sarah just gave him a tight, dismissive smile. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in 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