suspicious - Story 145325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter, usually a source of playful banter, was suddenly distant, his usual charm replaced by a stiff formality. The review called my new pasta dish, "A culinary disaster." I, Chef Ricardo, ran my hand over my stubbled chin. My palms began to sweat. I re-read the review, the critic's words twisting in my gut. He’d ordered the pasta special, the one I hadn’t prepped myself. The kitchen staff had been working late, all of them. He stared at the kitchen staff, trying to detect any tell.

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