suspicious - Story 145734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the trash folder, unread. John kept glancing at the unopened message. It was from Alex, a long string of emails in the past week had been sent to his spam folder. Every time he tried to delete the message, he hesitated.

He ran a hand over his face. The air in his apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. Alex hadn't been himself lately. He’d been unusually quiet, distracted. The way he kept changing the subject whenever John brought up their plans for the upcoming weekend felt wrong.

John felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The recent distancing, the evasiveness, the email... It all added up to something he couldn't quite name, but it felt deeply unsettling. It was eating at him.

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