suspicious - Story 145618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sudden and insistent demands of his sister, Carol, that alerted him. He’d barely spoken to her in months, and now she was practically begging him to come, whispering coded messages about “the importance of being there.” The urgency in her tone was not lost on him. He felt a sense of impending doom, a feeling that something bad was about to happen.

The location was her parents' community clubhouse. The decor was anodyne, with generic decorations and bland furniture. The guests were mostly unfamiliar faces, their conversations hushed and guarded. He noticed the security guards, who were conspicuously attentive, their eyes constantly scanning the room.

He’d agreed to give a toast, but as he stood at the podium, he realized he didn't know what to say. He looked at his parents, their smiles unnervingly bright. He wasn't sure if he was giving a speech or a eulogy.

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