suspicious - Story 145189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The way John gripped his phone, as if afraid it would disappear, was what caught her attention. It was usually lying on the counter, forgotten and uncared for. Lately, though, it was glued to his hand.

He started getting up at odd hours, claiming to be working. She watched him, an unwelcome tension building in her chest. She asked him about the calls, but he just brushed her off, avoiding her eyes. Her vision swam.

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