suspicious - Story 145669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency light cast grotesque shadows, transforming the familiar into something sinister. He noticed the way Sarah kept her purse clutched to her chest, the way she avoided his gaze. Her silence was more unsettling than any outburst. He offered her a granola bar. She gave a brisk shake of her head.

He tried to distract her, talking about the weather, the office gossip, anything to break the tension. Her lack of response, her refusal to meet his eyes, was a tight knot in his stomach. Every glance he cast her way he noticed the glint of steel in her eyes.

He began to wonder what she was hiding, what she was truly thinking. The thought made his skin crawl.

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