suspicious - Story 145558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence amplified every creak and groan of the old building. Ethan watched Chloe, his brow furrowed. He'd refused her request for a ferret, citing his sensitive nose and allergies. She'd seemed to accept the decision, but her reaction felt hollow.

She’d been unusually fidgety, constantly tapping her fingers on the table, her eyes darting around the room. He felt uneasy. He had decided to watch her and make sure everything was fine.

He tried to distract her, but she kept looking at him. He asked her to leave, and she did. As soon as she was gone, he got up, and locked the door behind 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