suspicious - Story 145188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang just as they were about to leave for their anniversary dinner. Mark answered it quickly, excusing himself to take the call on the patio. When he returned, his mood had darkened, the laughter gone from his face.

The silence in the car was thick, unyielding. He didn’t mention the call, and neither did she. She stared out the window, watching the city lights blur, her jaw clenched tight. A painful tightening began in her temples.

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