suspicious - Story 145382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt a prickly heat crawl up his neck. He'd found a receipt tucked inside the glove compartment of his car. Dinner for two, at a restaurant he and "Emily" had frequented. The date was last Tuesday. His current girlfriend, also named Emily, had been "sick" and unable to make their date that night.

He grabbed his keys, ignoring the rapid thumping of his heart. The restaurant was only a few blocks away. The air outside was thick with humidity, mirroring the tension twisting in his gut. As he approached the entrance, he saw her. Emily, laughing, her arm linked with a man he’d never seen before, her dark hair tossed by the evening breeze. He ducked back into the shadows.

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