suspicious - Story 145566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, a pool party, huh?" Ethan asked, his voice deliberately light. He was staring at the flyer for Jake’s birthday, his own party planned for the exact same afternoon. It was a hiking trip, something they had both discussed for weeks.

Jake had seemed enthusiastic about their hike before. Now, he was grinning a little too widely. Ethan noticed a sheen of sweat on Jake's forehead and a nervous twitch around his mouth. The sudden shift felt…wrong.

As he packed his backpack, the feeling of being set up became overwhelming. He kept re-checking the weather forecast, as if looking for a sign, a reason to call off his own plans. The entire situation felt like a puzzle with missing pieces.

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