suspicious - Story 145294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The week leading up to Michael's birthday had been filled with his friends asking him about his plans. Every time he mentioned he was hoping for a quiet evening, they'd all seemed relieved. His best friend had even suggested a "guys night" to "take the pressure off."

He was walking into his favorite coffee shop and he saw one of his friends, hidden behind a large newspaper, but his face peeked out just as Michael walked by. The look he gave was…off. A mixture of panic and what Michael could not identify. It was gone as soon as Michael looked back.

He’d almost missed the odd glances. And the hushed conversations whenever he walked into a room. The way his phone had gone quiet. The sudden avoidance had solidified in a cold, hard lump in his gut.

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