suspicious - Story 145736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're not going to tell me?" Maria asked, her voice sharper than she intended. David, usually so open and forthcoming, had been unusually closed-mouthed all day.

He shrugged, avoiding her eyes. "There's nothing to tell." The casual dismissal didn't fool her for a second. His hands were clasped tightly in his lap, his knuckles white.

A wave of heat surged through her. His evasiveness was a new development. He kept changing the subject. This entire week he had been acting out of character. The way he kept checking his phone, the furtive phone calls, the late nights. The atmosphere thickened with a tangible sense of hidden information.

She felt like she was standing on the edge of a cliff. A feeling of dread took hold of her.

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