suspicious - Story 145561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on Amelia's fridge, a cheerful splash of color mocking her. Liam's party. Laser tag. Fun for everyone, it promised. But the timing... that was the problem. Her own party, a low-key affair at the local brewery, was planned for the same day. Just a coincidence, she told herself. But her gut clenched every time she glanced at the date.

She found herself re-reading Liam's text message. "Can't wait to celebrate with you!" it blared. Too enthusiastic? Or was she reading into things? Amelia rubbed her temples. The invitation felt like a taunt.

Later, while organizing the fairy lights for her own party, a nervous energy zipped through her. She kept checking her phone, expecting a cancellation, an explanation, anything. The silence only amplified the nagging feeling. This whole scenario was not right.

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