suspicious - Story 145616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived early, pretending he needed to "help" with set up. It gave him a chance to survey the area. The hall was large and impersonal, decorated with generic banners and balloons. His parents usually held parties at home, simple affairs with friends and family. This was different, grand, and…unsettling.

He noticed the lack of family photos, replaced with generic, stock images. The caterers were efficient but cold, their eyes averted. The music, a selection of elevator-style jazz, was bland and unremarkable. He felt a sense of growing dread, a sensation of being trapped in a play he hadn't rehearsed for.

The microphone felt heavy in his hand. He wasn't sure he could go through with it. He looked at his parents, their smiles fixed in place. He had to say something, but he wasn’t sure what he could trust.

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