suspicious - Story 145574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I... I think you're mistaken," Emily replied, her voice carefully neutral, her gaze darting away from Ben's as she stared at the cracked pavement. This was not the reunion she had envisioned. Ben, her confidant, her partner in crime for so many years during their youth, was looking at her as if she were a stranger. A wave of unease crashed over her. She gripped her purse so tightly, her knuckles turned white.

A low growl resonated from deep within her chest. The memory of the way they used to be, the ease of their communication, felt like a phantom limb, an aching void. She saw how his gaze repeatedly swept over her, a slow, deliberate assessment that made her want to retreat and disappear. She felt very exposed, very vulnerable.

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