suspicious - Story 145737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug in her hands felt heavy. "You've been… different," I said to Hannah, the words tumbling out before I could stop them. Her usual bubbly energy was muted, replaced by a strained facade.

She picked at a stray thread on the sofa. Her smile, which usually reached her eyes, felt hollow. A pit formed in my stomach. She'd been distracted, vague. The way she kept glancing at her laptop, the hurried phone calls... it all felt off.

I took a deep breath. Something was terribly off. It felt like walking through a minefield. One wrong step, and everything would change.

"Is everything okay?" I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.

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