suspicious - Story 145732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept fidgeting with the strap of her purse. Across the table, Chloe kept beaming, her happiness radiating. It was the kind of genuine, effervescent joy that usually made Sarah feel warm. But today, it only scraped against her nerves.

The waitress arrived with their coffees. Sarah took a long sip, pretending to savor the bitterness. Chloe was telling her about the "amazing offer." She didn't sound excited. She sounded rehearsed.

Something was gnawing at Sarah. It was a tightening in her chest, a feeling of unease that coiled with every word Chloe uttered. Her best friend never kept secrets. Never.

"Where are you thinking of going?" Sarah finally asked, her voice sounding far away to her own ears. Chloe's smile faltered for a fraction of a second, just long enough for Sarah to notice.

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