suspicious - Story 145320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Where did you learn to say that?" Alex asked, his voice tight. They were at dinner, and Sarah had casually used a phrase in a language he'd never heard her speak before. It was a language he knew his parents spoke. She’d been speaking to the waiter.

Sarah looked up, a flicker of something unreadable passing over her face. "Oh, just a little bit here and there," she replied, her voice carefully neutral. He found himself struggling to swallow. The food suddenly tasted like ash in his mouth.

He watched her, trying to decipher her expression, her demeanor. Her smile seemed forced. He felt a cold dread begin to creep over him, a sense of isolation. The meal stretched out before him, a long and unpleasant ordeal.

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