suspicious - Story 145190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of his aftershave usually calmed her, but now it felt suffocating. The constant phone calls, the late nights 'working,' the way he flinched when she touched him. It had been building up for months.

She watched him across the breakfast table, his face a mask of false cheer. She felt a profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling that something important had irrevocably shifted. She felt trapped. The coffee tasted like ash.

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