suspicious - Story 145293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a simple subject line: "Important Update." It was from the event planner, and it explained, with a plethora of overly apologetic wording, that there had been a change of plans. Something about "unforeseen circumstances" and "venue issues." He stared at the screen, a chill creeping up his spine.

He replayed his conversation with his partner from the previous evening. They'd been unusually quiet. Now, remembering the way her eyes seemed to avoid his, he felt his chest grow tight.

He'd spent weeks helping her plan *her* friend’s party, his was suddenly a wash? The odd emptiness in the apartment was suddenly deafening. He walked into the bathroom and stared at his reflection. It was an unfamiliar 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