suspicious - Story 145292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza walked into the living room, a half-eaten bag of chips clutched in her hand. The lights were dim, and the usually boisterous chatter of her housemates was eerily absent. She frowned. Her birthday was tomorrow. She swore she'd heard hushed voices coming from behind locked doors.

She tried the handle to the guest bedroom, it was locked. Her stomach churned. It wasn’t like anyone to give her the cold shoulder.

An hour later, as she aimlessly scrolled through social media, she saw a photo of her friends at a restaurant she'd wanted to try. It was posted by her friend, Emily, who’d sworn she had to work. Her breath hitched. The image felt deliberately, pointedly cruel.

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