suspicious - Story 145834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of jasmine hung heavy in the air, a familiar perfume that normally comforted her. Tonight, it felt cloying, a mask. Caroline stared out the window, the moon casting long shadows across the garden. The bank statement, tucked inside a cookbook, felt heavy in her hand.

Her husband, Edward, had always been financially prudent. He clipped coupons, haggled over prices, and lectured her about fiscal responsibility. This savings account, bearing a different name, a different address, felt like a slap in the face. She hadn’t known he was capable of this.

He would be home soon. She could hear the quiet hum of his car as he approached. The muscles in her jaw clenched, a knot forming in her stomach.

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