suspicious - Story 145551 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt too quiet. Sarah had been gone for hours, off at her volunteer gig, leaving Michael to stew. He paced the living room, hands shoved deep in his pockets. The air hung thick with the aroma of the cleaning solution she'd used that morning, a smell he usually found comforting, but now it grated on his nerves.

He replayed their conversation about a pet in his head, a parrot. She'd been so eager, practically bouncing with excitement. He'd said no, citing allergies, the lease, the sheer impracticality. Now, though, the silence felt pregnant with secrets.

He checked the birdcage he knew she’d been eyeing at the pet store’s website. Empty. He walked over to her bedroom door, hesitating. He could hear her favorite music playing, but it was coming from inside, it was coming from inside, and he knew he had the keys. He decided to go for a run.

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