suspicious - Story 145617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitations had arrived two months prior, beautiful cards with an official seal. From the moment she'd received hers, something felt off. She couldn't put her finger on it, but the whole thing had a sense of unreality about it. Even the wording seemed calculated, designed to elicit a specific response.

The venue was a luxury spa resort, an unusual choice for her parents. The cost was exorbitant. Everything about the event screamed wealth and excess, far beyond their usual means. She watched her parents, both of whom seemed unusually…gleeful. It was like they were actors, playing roles they had been rehearsing for months.

As she stepped up to give her speech, she found herself staring at the closed circuit cameras at the back of the room. A chill went down her spine. This wasn't a party; it was a performance.

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