suspicious - Story 145735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back from the beach felt longer than usual. Leo kept shooting glances at Ben, who was staring out the window, his jaw clenched. The salty air and sunshine usually left Ben cheerful, but today, his usual joy was gone, replaced by a quiet intensity.

Leo felt a pressure in his chest, a dull ache that seemed to grow with every mile. Ben had been distant lately, his usual openness replaced with guardedness. His responses to Leo's questions were short, his smiles fleeting. The silence in the car was loud, filled with unspoken anxieties.

"So," Leo began, trying to keep his voice steady, "what did you mean earlier when you said things might be changing?" Ben didn't reply.

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