suspicious - Story 145181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steam from the coffee mug fogged Amelia's glasses as she watched David pace the living room. He kept glancing at his phone, a tight line etched between his eyebrows. He’d taken the call in the garden, speaking in hushed tones, then returned inside visibly rattled.

"Everything alright?" she asked, trying to sound casual, though her heart hammered against her ribs. He jumped, startled, and then forced a smile.

"Yeah, fine," he said, too quickly. He busied himself with the crossword, but his pen scratched furiously across the page, completely missing the clues. A knot formed in Amelia’s stomach.

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