suspicious - Story 145389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her favorite cologne, lingering on the scarf he’d found in his car. Mark ran his fingers over the fabric, his mouth a thin, tight line. He hadn't recognized it. This scent was not hers. "Chloe" had been acting off, lately. Always on the phone, disappearing for hours at a time, claiming she was "busy" with work.

He closed his eyes, the aroma filling his senses. A cold wave rolled through him, and his gut twisted. He looked down and saw his car keys on the counter. He decided to pay a visit to the local grocery store, the one she said she was visiting today.

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