suspicious - Story 145388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The expensive bottle of wine sat unopened on the counter. James stared at it, a knot of unease twisting in his stomach. "Lisa" had presented it to him last night, a gift from a "business associate." He’d never seen the label before. He hadn't seen the person who gave the gift, but the associate had a name that was strangely familiar.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. The lies, the small inconsistencies, the way she seemed to flinch when he asked about her day. He felt a burning in his eyes. He went to the drawer and pulled out his phone. He needed a confirmation of something he already knew.

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