suspicious - Story 145212 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car windows, mirroring the tumultuous feeling inside Clara. She listened to Maya, her best friend since kindergarten, animatedly describe their first concert. The music, the crowd, the stolen kisses behind the bleachers – all a perfect picture.

Clara kept her gaze on the blurred highway, gripping the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles whitened. Maya’s recollection was so vibrant, so filled with joy, it felt alien to Clara. It didn’t match her recollections.

The memory tugged at her, not like a warm hug, but more like a warning. The concert felt cold, the crowd oppressive. The stolen kiss? A blur of unfamiliar faces.

“Remember how you freaked out when that guy bumped into you?” Maya asked, her laughter echoing in the car.

Clara's breath caught in her throat. She had no recollection of being bumped. She felt a prickling heat rise on the back of her neck. "Yeah," she replied, her voice strained. She glanced at Maya, suddenly seeing a stranger in her friend's familiar face.

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