suspicious - Story 145738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but the scent offered no comfort. Michael watched as Kevin meticulously arranged the pastries on a plate. It was a ritual they shared every Sunday morning, but today, the usual camaraderie was absent.

Kevin’s actions felt labored, his movements deliberate. He kept pausing, as if searching for the right words. His forced enthusiasm was unconvincing. Michael felt a tremor of agitation. The sudden change in his usually jovial friend was causing his insides to twist.

He forced a smile. "Looks delicious, buddy. What's been on your mind lately?" He wasn't sure he really wanted to know.

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