suspicious - Story 145186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you take the call from earlier?" Liam asked, casually, as he poured himself a drink. Emily found the query strange. He knew she had been at the shop all afternoon, helping her mother.

She stared, bewildered. “I’ve been at work all day," she replied, her voice flat. He turned away, his expression suddenly unreadable.

He mumbled something about a wrong number, but his shoulders seemed to tense. He avoided her gaze and busied himself with tidying the already spotless kitchen. Something in his actions felt deliberately evasive.

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