suspicious - Story 145338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cozy atmosphere of "The Cozy Corner Cafe" usually filled Michael with contentment. The sign, scrawled hastily on a chalkboard, read, "Closed." It felt…wrong.

He studied the empty tables and chairs, the silent coffee machine, the lifeless display of pastries. Everything seemed frozen in a state of unnatural stillness. He knew the owner, Mrs. Gable, personally, and the news was shocking.

Michael caught a glimpse of Mrs. Gable through the window. She was packing boxes, her face a mask of false indifference. He felt a chill run down his spine, a sense of foreboding that grew with each passing moment.

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