suspicious - Story 145570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Happy birthday to you..." Carol sang to herself, the lyrics feeling hollow. The announcement of her friend, Lisa's, celebratory dance-off had caused her plans to shatter. This was a day of celebration, that no one was likely to show up for.

She started and stopped her preparations. Lisa had been evasive and abrupt, when Carol had tried to discuss their respective celebrations. Carol's mouth felt dry.

She kept picturing the dance-off, wondering if she was being made a fool. The apartment felt too quiet, the decorations felt pointless. Her stomach churned.

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