suspicious - Story 145666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his voice light, cracking a joke about how they could bond over their shared ordeal. But the laughter felt forced, echoing strangely in the confined space. Across from him, Emily sat rigidly, her posture as stiff as the metal walls.

Her eyes were fixed on him, taking in every gesture. He felt the blood begin to pound in his ears. She was studying him, and he could feel her trying to piece together something about him. He didn’t like it. He looked away, focusing on the ceiling.

When she asked, "What do you think is taking so long?" his throat constricted and the answer wouldn't come.

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