suspicious - Story 145652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car windows, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Eleanor. She’d intended to text her best friend, Sarah, about the unsettling behavior of her husband, David. Instead, the message, detailing his late nights and secretive phone calls, had gone to David himself. His response was immediate: "Can we talk?" A chill, deeper than the autumn air, settled over her.

She pulled over to the side of the road, her hands trembling as she grabbed the steering wheel. Her breath hitched in her throat. She replayed David's recent actions, searching for clues, for an explanation she couldn’t find. Each memory felt distorted, like looking through a funhouse mirror. Her palms grew clammy.

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