suspicious - Story 145664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The claustrophobia was a physical thing, pressing in on him. He felt the cold sweat begin to bloom on his forehead. The rhythmic whirring of the stalled elevator felt deliberate, malicious. He kept his gaze locked on the emergency phone, the rotary dial looking tauntingly useless.

He caught her eyes on him. She asked how he was, and he gave her a casual shrug, a smile playing on his lips. His words felt hollow even to his own ears. Her answers were short, almost curt. He couldn't help but notice the way she kept touching her cell phone, as if she were waiting for a specific call.

He knew she was judging him; he could feel her weighing him, testing him. The thought made him anxious. He wished they would just hurry up and get him out of this metal box.

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