suspicious - Story 145662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her from across the confined space, the dim emergency lighting reflecting oddly in her eyes. It was a look that settled deep inside him, a cold, hard knot. He kept a steady, neutral expression as he scanned the walls, as if searching for a hidden lever. The silence was deafening, the air thick with unspoken tensions.

Her nervous fidgeting was almost comical. He saw her checking her watch, glancing at the security camera in the corner, and then back at him. She was an open book, and he knew exactly what she was thinking.

He cleared his throat. “Well, this is just great,” he said, his voice unusually loud. He needed to break the quiet, needed to gauge her reaction. He noticed the way she gripped the strap of her bag; it tightened with each word.

The weight of the situation felt like a physical burden. He knew this feeling, knew how it felt to be under scrutiny.

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