suspicious - Story 145319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat on the patio, watching the sunset. He heard the faint sound of a familiar voice, coming from the back of the house. He recognized the voice as his wife, Karen's, but the words were a jumble of sounds he didn’t understand. He felt a chill, despite the warm evening air.

He slowly rose from his chair and walked toward the back door. He peered through the window. Karen was in the kitchen, on her laptop, wearing headphones. Her face was illuminated by the screen, and she was speaking. He stood there for a long moment, unmoving.

He thought he had been happy with her. He thought she was happy with him. The words he’d heard, though he didn’t understand them, felt like a deliberate barrier, erected between them. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He wasn’t sure he could face her.

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