suspicious - Story 145318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grocery store felt oppressive. Sunlight streamed through the windows, but all I could focus on was the way Elena was behaving. She was unusually distant, her attention glued to her phone. I watched her at the checkout. She was talking in a language I couldn’t understand, her voice soft and intimate.

I’d been so happy to see her at first. But when she’d pulled out the phone and spoken to someone else, my heart had sunk. It had been hard to pretend to be happy, hard to pay attention to the grocery list.

The words she was speaking didn’t sound familiar to me. I thought she was busy at work all the time. Now she was speaking a language I couldn’t recognize, and I didn’t know what to do.

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