suspicious - Story 145665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator car had become a pressure cooker. The air, already stagnant, felt charged. Sarah’s gaze seemed fixed on him, a constant, unrelenting examination. He wasn’t sure how many times he had to reassure her that he was okay, that everything would be fine. His hands felt slick with sweat.

Every casual comment she made, every seemingly innocuous question, felt like a probe. Her inquiries about his family, his work, his hobbies were probing. His responses felt clumsy, as if he were tripping over the truth.

He shifted uncomfortably, avoiding her unwavering stare. He tried to focus on the flickering emergency light, but her scrutiny was a constant distraction. The silence was broken only by the rhythmic thumping of his own heart.

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