suspicious - Story 145330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic's venomous assessment of his soufflé, "A culinary catastrophe," sent a wave of nausea through Chef Julian. He tried to focus on his breathing, but the air felt thin. He found himself inspecting the ingredients, each egg, each pat of butter, with a scrutinizing eye. The pastry chef, Marie, usually brimming with enthusiasm, was unusually quiet, avoiding his gaze. He walked through the kitchen, a sense of unease washing over him, a cold tide rising. He felt compelled to check the oven, over and over again. He started to feel clammy and started pacing.

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