suspicious - Story 145581 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe was packed, the air thick with the smell of coffee and something else… familiarity. Sarah tapped her foot, the rhythm a nervous counterpoint to the gentle acoustic guitar that was playing. That chord progression… it was hers. Her very own.

She scanned the room. A young woman with long, dark hair was on stage, singing Sarah's song. The girl’s voice was… okay. Not bad, but nowhere near the emotion Sarah poured into it. She felt a prickle of unease. Where had this person learned it?

Sarah took a deep breath. She went up to the stage and said, "Excuse me, that was a lovely song. Did you happen to write it?" The girl’s smile faltered.

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