suspicious - Story 145818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified his unease. He scanned the room: comfortable chairs, a water dispenser, a strategically placed plant. All designed to create a sense of trust, of safety. The opposite of how he felt.

He sat, his back ramrod straight. The memories of her sharp words, her sneering laughter, were as vivid as a photograph. How could she have changed so drastically? It felt fake, manufactured.

She smiled at him as she walked in. He knew her smile, the way it never reached her eyes. He sat frozen, a deer in the headlights, anticipating something terrible.

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