suspicious - Story 145183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with Friday night chatter, but Clara barely noticed. Liam had been acting off for weeks, but the phone calls started this week. He'd excused himself to the restroom, and her eyes followed him like a heat-seeking missile.

She squeezed her napkin until her knuckles were white. When he returned, she noticed a strange sheen of sweat on his forehead. "You okay?" she asked, her voice sounding far away.

He shrugged. "Just a bit warm," he replied, but his gaze darted around the room, avoiding hers. The carefully chosen words seemed brittle and thin.

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