suspicious - Story 145384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slick with sweat. Anna smoothed down her skirt, forcing a smile. She was supposed to be enjoying this lunch date with "Robert," but the nagging feeling in the back of her mind was growing stronger. His phone had buzzed constantly throughout the meal, each notification met with a hurried glance and a muttered apology.

He'd said he was waiting for a "very important work email." She pretended to be engrossed in her salad, but her gaze kept drifting towards his phone, the subtle vibrations an irritating drumbeat. The way he kept glancing around the room. The way he hesitated before answering questions. She found herself wishing the server would bring the check, so she could just *go*.

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