suspicious - Story 145420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon glow of the diner sign cast an eerie light on the street. She gripped the wallet, the texture of the leather almost repulsive to her. Her stomach felt like a cold stone.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. She saw a figure sitting in the back of a car, watching her. She imagined the police lights. She imagined handcuffs.

She entered the diner and sat in a booth. The waitress, a woman with tired eyes, approached. Her gaze lingered on the wallet. She had to make a decision.

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