suspicious - Story 145670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her carefully, studying every movement, trying to decipher the unspoken messages. The way she avoided his eye contact, the way her hands were constantly fidgeting, the way she kept clearing her throat. He didn't like it. He was certain this was all a game and he was the pawn.

He kept talking, mostly to fill the silence, but also to observe her reactions. The elevator lurched again, and she gasped. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of urgency. The thought that he was in danger sparked inside him.

The weight of the situation felt like a physical burden. He knew this feeling, knew how it felt to be under scrutiny.

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