suspicious - Story 145184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her husband’s cologne hung in the air after he'd left for work, a familiar comfort that suddenly felt tainted. It was the way he’d answered the phone last night, stepping out onto the balcony, that had triggered the unease. The hushed tones, the hurried goodbye.

Now, alone in their kitchen, a sudden urge to check his phone consumed her. She told herself it was ridiculous, an overreaction, but her hands wouldn't stop shaking. She told herself she was being silly, but the urge persisted. She knew she shouldn't.

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