suspicious - Story 145315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was packed, a symphony of chattering voices and clinking silverware. Michael watched Chloe across the table. They were celebrating their anniversary. She’d been unusually quiet, studying the menu, her focus intense. Then she spoke, and a knot formed in his stomach. He understood none of what she said. It was a language he'd never heard before.

His fork clattered against his plate. He glanced around the restaurant, searching for clues, for any indication of what was happening. A wave of heat washed over him. She looked up, met his gaze, and smiled. But it felt forced, a little brittle.

He found himself unable to eat. The food sat untouched. He replayed her words in his head, trying to decipher them, to find some meaning in the unknown. His heart rate had accelerated. The joyous occasion seemed to have turned sour.

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