suspicious - Story 145579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread usually invoked a feeling of comfort, but now it felt like a prelude to a nightmare. “No, I’m afraid you have the wrong person,” Noah said, his voice flat, devoid of emotion. Sarah felt a chill that traveled the length of her spine. Her stomach twisted into knots. The thought of all the shared moments, the laughter, the tears, the secrets they had held, now felt like a fabricated lie.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. His sudden lack of recognition felt like a slap in the face. She watched him, trying to discern some hint of the boy she had known, but found only the cold, unyielding surface of a stranger. She gripped her hands into fists, her fingernails digging into her palms.

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