suspicious - Story 145577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the carnival suddenly seemed muted and unreal. “I don’t recall… ever knowing you.” Olivia’s response to Sarah's greeting felt like an icy hand grasping her heart. The world around her started to spin. All the happy, colorful lights of the fair seemed to blur around her. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of bewilderment and something else she couldn't name.

She watched Olivia as she bought a cotton candy, her movements smooth and practiced. Sarah thought about her own reflection, wondering if she looked different. Olivia didn't acknowledge her anymore.

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