suspicious - Story 145339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar tunes of the jukebox at "Rockin' Diner" usually buoyed Maria's spirits. The sign, which proclaimed, "Last day," felt like a punch to the gut. The manager, Sam, looked like a ghost.

Maria watched Sam, who was wiping down the counter with excessive force. His eyes darted around the room, avoiding eye contact. He had always been so open and friendly. Now, he was acting like he was afraid.

Maria felt a knot tighten in her stomach. The closing of the diner was just too sudden, too abrupt. She felt a need to investigate, a feeling that something significant was being concealed.

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