suspicious - Story 145564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David heard about Mark's surprise bowling party, a prickling sensation crawled over his skin. It was his birthday, too, and he was hosting a small gathering at his place. He kept replaying Mark's nonchalant announcement, searching for a tell.

"Yeah, just something casual, you know?" Mark had said, his eyes avoiding David's. The easy facade didn't fool him. The timing, the lack of prior discussion, the entire charade set off alarm bells in David’s head.

Throughout the morning, he paced his apartment, the anticipation of impending betrayal eating at him. He found himself rearranging the furniture, as though preparing for a fight. He kept glancing at the door, expecting something, he didn’t know what.

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