suspicious - Story 145668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was getting stale, thick with the unspoken. He tried to maintain a facade of composure, but the tremor in his voice betrayed him. He kept making small talk, attempting to ease the tension, but his coworker, James, remained distant, his eyes narrowed. He kept looking towards the top of the elevator.

James had a strange way of answering him. His answers were shorter, and his eyes never met his own. He kept changing the subject, avoiding any personal questions. His reactions were too swift, his words measured, and his posture was stiff, as if he was prepared for a fight.

He felt the prickle of fear, knowing the game was afoot, and he was the pawn.

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