suspicious - Story 145703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The way Liam's eyes lingered on the details of her desk, the casual interest in her potted plant, the off-handed comment about the “unusually warm weather”—it was all a little...much. They’d just met, and now he was casually mentioning Camp Redwood. *Her* Camp Redwood.

He was leaning forward, elbows on his desk, and she fought the urge to recoil. She felt a tickle in her throat. Something wasn’t right.

“You went to Redwood?” she asked, trying to sound casual, but her voice cracked. His smile didn’t reach his eyes.

"Sure did," Liam said. He knew he had her attention now. "Remember the ghost stories by the lake?" The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. She could feel a cold sweat starting on her palms.

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