suspicious - Story 145296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just a casual dinner," her friend, Chloe, had insisted, her tone overly bright. "No need to get all dressed up." She didn't buy it. Sarah had been hearing "casual dinner" all week.

It was almost as if everyone had suddenly memorized a script. Each friend offered the same suggestion for the weekend, and each had the same evasive reaction when she asked more questions.

She wandered past her local park and, as she rounded a corner, she glimpsed her best friend, who was supposed to be out of town, furtively loading a large box into her car. The box was wrapped in brightly colored paper. Her breath hitched in her throat.

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