suspicious - Story 145573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed excessively bright, causing a headache to bloom behind Alex’s eyes. Mark blinked at him, completely unrecognizing. “Are you sure you have the right person?” His tone was light, but his eyes were not. There was a guarded quality there that he'd never seen before. A small, involuntary tremor ran through Alex's hand, gripping the edge of the park bench.

He started to recount shared memories, their secret treehouse, the time they got caught painting graffiti, but Mark just stared back, a polite, yet utterly blank expression plastered on his face. Alex felt a coldness wash over him, as though the warmth of the day had been abruptly sucked away. His stomach churned. He watched as Mark tapped his foot restlessly.

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