suspicious - Story 145317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message notification lit up on her phone, and as usual, Mark was the first person to notice. He glanced over her shoulder. She quickly swiveled the phone towards the table and away from his eyes. Her cheeks had gone red. He felt a sudden, inexplicable feeling of being shut out. He had come to enjoy their open communication, and now, it seemed, a barrier had suddenly emerged.

"What was that?" he asked casually, trying to sound unconcerned. She mumbled something about a work email. He couldn’t see the message, but he'd caught a glimpse of a name he didn't recognize in the sender's field, a name written in a script that wasn't English. His breath hitched.

He excused himself, retreated to the bathroom, and stared at his reflection. He felt a rising panic, a sense of being adrift. He felt betrayed. He didn't know why, but he felt sure it was happening. He wanted to know what she was hiding from him.

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