suspicious - Story 145562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you're okay with this?" Ben asked, the crease in his brow deepening. He gestured towards the flyer detailing Leo's upcoming arcade party. It was the same day as his own, a barbeque at the park.

Liam’s face was unreadable. He tapped his fingers on the table, a rapid, staccato rhythm that grated on Ben's nerves. "Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" His voice was a little too casual.

Ben eyed him carefully. Leo had been unusually evasive lately, answering calls with a rushed tone and changing the subject whenever Ben mentioned his own birthday plans. The coincidental timing of this arcade party was hard to swallow.

The barbeque felt less like a celebration and more like a test. Ben found himself observing the other guests, waiting for some hidden message, some truth to bubble to the surface. He felt a cold knot tighten in his stomach.

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