The headline screamed, "Chef Leo's Lament: A Descent into Mediocrity." Leo slumped in his chair, the cruel words echoing in his mind. He glanced at the empty dining room, a stark contrast to the buzzing clientele he was used to. He kept replaying the scene in his head: the critic, aloof and scrutinizing, asking obscure questions about his suppliers. Then he thought about his head waiter, Sergio, who had been pushing a new brand of olive oil. He frowned. He knew Sergio stood to profit if the restaurant changed suppliers.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284