suspicious - Story 145207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“My car is gone,” Leo said, his voice flat, as he stared at his wife. She was in the kitchen, making breakfast. The aroma of frying bacon usually calmed him, but today it only made him feel nauseous.

Her response was disbelief. “Are you sure? Maybe you parked it on the street?”

He shook his head, the knot in his stomach tightening further. He had definitely parked it in the driveway. The memory was sharp. He thought about the recent argument with his business partner. The whispered threats.

He forced a smile. "I'll go check the street," he said, but his heart wasn’t in it. He knew.

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