suspicious - Story 145739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the bookstore was broken only by the rustle of pages. Anna pretended to browse, but her gaze kept drifting towards the back of the store, where Sophia was lingering by the travel section. Sophia was usually glued to the romance novels.

Anna’s hands were clammy. Sophia's recent behavior had been unusual. She hadn't been returning calls, and the one time they did meet, Sophia was distracted, her mind clearly elsewhere.

The knot in Anna's stomach tightened with every passing moment. The travel books, the vague answers, the avoidance… it all coalesced into a suffocating feeling of wrongness.

She watched Sophia, a feeling of deep wrongness stirring inside.

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