suspicious - Story 145323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Bland. Lifeless. A culinary void." Jean-Pierre stared out the rain-streaked window of his bistro. His hands fidgeted, picking at the tablecloth. The harsh critique had been posted the morning, and the phone hadn't rung once. He felt a cold dread creeping through his chest. He replayed the evening the critic had dined, again and again. The waiter, Francois, had been unusually attentive to the critic’s table, leaning in close, whispering something Jean-Pierre couldn't quite hear. A knot formed in his stomach. What was Francois's true motive?

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