suspicious - Story 145740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was buzzing with excitement, but inside, I felt nothing. The music was a blur. I turned to look at Chris, his face illuminated by the stage lights. He’d barely spoken to me all week.

He met my gaze, then quickly looked away. The nervous way he kept tapping his foot, the way his knuckles were white as he gripped the armrests, all felt so unlike him.

My chest felt tight. I could feel the blood rushing to my ears. His explanations for his behavior felt hollow. Every word he uttered was carefully crafted. The performance was a distraction, a shield. Something was being deliberately hidden.

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