suspicious - Story 145705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Camp Willow Creek, right?" Ben asked, tilting his head. The question was casual, yet the way his eyes darted around the office felt… calculating. Clara knew that camp. She'd done her best to forget it.

The familiar feeling of unease flooded her. She was already uncomfortable around Ben, a new hire. Now, this. Her stomach churned.

She feigned a smile. “Yes. Long time ago, though.” She needed to change the subject. She stood up. "I'm going to grab a coffee," she said, her voice a little breathless. She did not want to be alone with him. Not now. Not ever.

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