suspicious - Story 145568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cake felt cloying as Sarah organized her party. A text from Olivia, announcing a last-minute painting session, arrived at the worst possible time: same day. Sarah felt her heart skip a beat.

Olivia’s reasoning, a sudden surge of inspiration, sounded flimsy. The timing was absurd. Sarah felt a creeping unease as she placed the cake on the counter.

She repeatedly glanced at her own guest list, dreading cancellations. A sense of betrayal swirled inside her. She felt a need to double-check everything, as if something was being concealed from her.

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