suspicious - Story 145569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a knot tighten in his chest as he surveyed the empty room. It was supposed to be a board game night, but his friend, Ben, was hosting a concert that same evening. He replayed the vague explanation Ben had given.

John paced, restless and irritable. The silence in the room felt heavy and accusing. He tried to tell himself it was just a coincidence, but he couldn't shake the sensation that something was amiss.

His eyes darted around the room, searching for an explanation, a reason. The lack of response from Ben left him with an uneasy sense of helplessness. The entire situation felt deceptive.

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