suspicious - Story 145335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit diner "Betty's Burgers" had always been a haven for Emily. Now, the glow of the chrome and the smell of sizzling burgers seemed to taunt her. "We're saying goodbye," the sign proclaimed. Utter nonsense.

She noticed Betty, the owner, frantically rearranging the sugar packets on the counter. Her hands trembled. Her normally welcoming grin was now brittle, failing to disguise a frantic gaze that flitted around the room.

Emily found herself studying the expressions of the other regulars, reading their faces for clues, seeking a shared understanding of what was truly happening. The sudden closure was baffling.

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