suspicious - Story 145438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, this soup is exactly like yours!” her husband exclaimed. She’d taught the new head chef at her restaurant her family recipe for "Hearty Harvest Soup" last month, to help him learn the ropes.

A coldness spread through her. The rich broth, the subtle spice blend, the way the vegetables were diced... It was all the same. She forced a smile.

She pushed her plate away. She was unable to swallow, a bitter taste in her mouth. She couldn't help but feel as though something had been stolen from her.

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