suspicious - Story 145830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The detective, Marcus, leaned back in his chair, the files spread before him. The evidence, the timeline, the suspect’s alibi… all too perfect. Across the precinct, he knew his partner, Jake, was looking at the same case file.

He felt a tightening in his gut. Jake, who had always been by his side, had been unusually secretive in recent weeks. Now, it was clear why.

Marcus ran a hand across his jaw, a muscle twitching. The room seemed to shrink around him. The clues, neatly arranged, felt distorted, somehow. This was not right, and he needed to know why.

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