suspicious - Story 145336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Sushi Bar" was where Liam took his wife, Maya, every Friday. This week, the restaurant was shrouded in a heavy silence. The announcement - a simple “Thanks for everything” – was too devoid of personality.

The usually immaculate sushi chefs were unusually quiet, their movements restrained. Liam watched them, his jaw clenched, as they methodically cleaned their stations. The air hung thick with unanswered questions.

He looked at Maya, seeing her confusion mirrored in her widened eyes. His gut told him there was an unspoken reason behind the closing. He had to know the truth.

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