suspicious - Story 145889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" Mark said, leaning against the counter. "The Harrison's are going to Europe." His wife, Susan, paused from her chopping.

The Harrisons? They barely went out to dinner, let alone across the ocean. Their house was always clean, but basic. Now, they were talking about a trip to Italy, and Susan had spotted Mrs. Harrison wearing a designer handbag.

A knot formed in her throat. She felt a certain… tightness in her jaw. She found herself comparing their house to the Harrison’s.

It felt like a hidden truth, lurking just beneath the surface. She started to notice details she hadn’t noticed before.

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