suspicious - Story 145663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the elevator car felt like a cage around her. The air grew thinner with each passing minute, each aborted attempt by maintenance. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong, something beyond the faulty wiring. Michael kept repeating reassurances, his words meant to comfort but instead stirred a growing unease.

She surreptitiously watched him, the way he kept fiddling with the buttons, the little sighs of impatience that seemed too theatrical. The sweat on his brow, the way his knuckles were white as he clenched his hands, the nervous twitch in his eye. It felt like a performance.

“Are you sure the emergency button works?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. His smile stiffened for a moment. He said, “Of course, everything is fine,” but she saw his gaze flick away, toward the shadows in the corner.

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