suspicious - Story 145559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down my spine, despite the warmth of the afternoon sun. Michael’s change in behavior was unnerving. He’d agreed to my rejection of a lizard with an unsettling placidity. The way he kept smiling.

He was unusually attentive, offering to do the dishes, taking out the trash without being asked. He kept talking, which was unusual, as if he was trying to distract me.

I decided to go for a run, I needed some air. When I came back, the apartment was empty. He’d taken all the cash from the safe, and he took my keys.

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