suspicious - Story 145814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was tastefully decorated, calming tones of blue and beige attempting to soothe his apprehension. He surveyed the room, his gaze darting from the abstract art on the wall to the meticulously arranged bookshelves. Every item felt staged, a carefully crafted performance. Why would she, of all people, choose this profession?

He felt a knot tighten in his gut. The comfortable chair felt anything but. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost frantic. This entire situation was a carefully constructed deception.

The door opened. "David, welcome." The voice was warm, inviting. He forced a smile, the muscles in his jaw aching from the effort.

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