The cake from the local bakery had arrived a week early. His partner, David, had said they had to re-arrange things. He hadn’t really believed it. He was now waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The air around him hummed with a suppressed energy, like a tightly wound spring. It wasn't the kind of atmosphere he was used to.

He tried to maintain a casual demeanor, but his hands trembled slightly as he reached for the phone. He had to know what was going on. He'd find the truth one way or another.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284