suspicious - Story 145571 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked up Maya’s spine as Liam stared at her, a blank canvas of confusion on his face. “Maya?” he echoed, his brow furrowing slightly. “I… don’t think we’ve met.” The words fell into the bustling coffee shop like a misplaced puzzle piece, jarring the easy rhythm of the day. She felt a tightening in her chest, a knot forming where her heart usually resided. Her carefully curated reunion speech, rehearsed a hundred times in her head, died on her lips. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle. His eyes, usually so full of laughter, were now just… questioning. The way his gaze flicked around the room, as though searching for a clue, made her skin crawl.

She found herself trailing her finger along the edge of her coffee cup, tracing the familiar curve. The air grew thick, heavy. She wondered if the room's temperature had shifted or if it was only her perception. She watched him, waiting.

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