suspicious - Story 145215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fire crackled merrily in the fireplace, casting dancing shadows on the walls of the cabin. Sarah listened to Emily, her college roommate, describe their graduation trip. Palm trees, tequila shots, and carefree days—Emily’s description was nothing short of paradise.

Sarah felt a tightening in her chest. Their shared memories were at odds. Her memory of that trip was different, with a disquieting edge that felt like a hidden truth.

She traced patterns on the table. The memory felt like it had been distorted, twisted out of shape. The way Emily told it, didn't account for the feeling of pressure, for the way the smiles felt strained.

“Oh, remember that guy with the guitar? He was so dreamy,” Emily said, sighing dreamily.

Sarah’s throat clenched. There was a guy with a guitar, but she recalled him being unsettling. She knew Emily's story was off.

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