suspicious - Story 145667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hours were dragging on, and the silence was suffocating. He attempted to strike up a conversation, but the woman, Maria, gave short, clipped responses. The tight set of her jaw made it clear she was not feeling comfortable in his company. The way she kept checking the emergency exit, looking for an escape, made the hair stand up on the back of his neck.

He offered her some water, and she took it with a nod, but the coldness in her eyes never wavered. He kept trying to be friendly, but his friendly nature was met with caution. He could tell she was thinking about something, and he didn't like it.

He began to examine the walls, feeling a growing, gnawing sense of unease.

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