suspicious - Story 145731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overly bright kitchen seemed to amplify the silence. Liam watched Maya chop vegetables with an intensity he’d never seen before. Her jaw was tight, her movements jerky, like a wind-up toy. It had all started at lunch, when she'd mentioned a "potential opportunity." Now, the air crackled with a tension that was almost audible.

He finally broke the silence. "So, about this... opportunity?" He tried for casual, but his voice cracked slightly. Maya didn't meet his gaze, instead focusing intently on slicing a bell pepper.

A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck. This wasn't like her. She usually spilled everything immediately. The deliberate withholding felt heavy in the room.

"It's just… a few things to sort out," she muttered, finally looking up, her eyes wide, almost pleading. Her forced smile didn't reach them. Something was off. Something felt fundamentally incorrect.

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