suspicious - Story 145331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of "Tony's Trattoria" always brought a sense of comfort to Eleanor. Tonight, however, it seemed to leer at her, a mocking beacon. The email had come this morning: "Closing doors. Farewell." She replayed the message in her mind, the simple words feeling loaded with unspoken implications.

A bead of sweat trickled down her temple as she entered. Tony himself, usually a booming presence, looked deflated, moving slowly behind the counter. She watched him, cataloging every gesture. His smile seemed forced, his eyes avoiding contact.

"Just the usual, Eleanor?" he asked, his voice subdued. She nodded, her heart a tangled mess of disbelief. She couldn't shake the feeling that something was being hidden from her, that the real story was far more complicated than a simple financial downturn.

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