suspicious - Story 145565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the car felt stifling as Maya drove to her own party. She glanced at the text message from Emily again: “Can’t wait for your party, but I’m swamped with this other thing.” The “other thing” was Emily's party. It was the same night. Maya swallowed hard.

She had poured so much effort into her own movie night, making themed snacks, setting up the projector. The thought of it all being overshadowed by Emily felt like a physical blow. The sudden clash was off-putting.

She kept the windows down, letting the humid air wash over her. Every car that passed by seemed to taunt her. She began calculating the logistics of the situation, trying to figure out if Emily was actively seeking some sort of confrontation.

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