suspicious - Story 145613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was not her parents' style. The opulent hotel ballroom, with its glittering chandeliers and polished floors, felt like a stage set. Clara, standing in the corner, felt a growing unease. She watched her mother, who seemed to be enjoying herself, greeting guests with an unnatural enthusiasm. Her father, usually reserved, was practically beaming.

The playlist was a strange mix of songs her parents would never have listened to. And the guest list…there were people there she didn’t recognize, people with blank, watchful expressions. Every detail was meticulously planned, too meticulously planned. Clara shifted on her feet, the polite smile plastered on her face feeling increasingly fragile.

She had rehearsed her speech, of course, but now the words felt hollow and inadequate. As she approached the stage, her palms were sweating. The room seemed to grow quiet, the air thick with unspoken expectations. She looked out at the sea of faces, and a shiver ran down her spine.

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