suspicious - Story 145921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the clinic hummed, a jarring counterpoint to the quiet tension filling Elara's chest. She clutched the worn leather of her handbag, her knuckles white. Across the room, a man with a shock of unruly grey hair kept glancing in her direction. His eyes, she noted, were a peculiar shade of violet, just like hers. It was a detail she'd learned to hide, a mark of her unusual condition.

He cleared his throat, a sudden, sharp sound. He began to walk towards her, a halting gait that seemed almost… tentative.

"Excuse me," he began, his voice raspy. "I couldn't help but notice... your eyes." His gaze flickered down to her chart, then back up to her face, a question forming on his lips.

A knot tightened in Elara's stomach. This was too convenient.

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