suspicious - Story 145563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning of her party, Chloe felt an unease she couldn't shake. The text from Sarah, inviting her to a karaoke night, felt cold and calculated. Same day, same time. Chloe's own party, a themed murder mystery, had been meticulously planned for months.

She replayed their last conversation in her mind, searching for clues, a hint of deceit. Sarah had been unusually vague about her plans, offering only a cryptic “something fun.” This karaoke night felt designed to steal her thunder.

As she put the finishing touches on the party favors, Chloe found herself repeatedly checking her phone, anticipating no shows. The air in her apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken tension, a sense of something hidden.

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