suspicious - Story 145927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crowded concert hall thrummed with music and the energy of the crowd. Alex, a seasoned musician, was backstage preparing for his performance. He hated the pre-show jitters, but today, they were amplified tenfold. He had been told, and he had expected, that he would eventually meet another. Now there was a presence in the wings, watching him.

The other man's face was etched with a familiar anxiety, the same haunted look Alex saw reflected in his own mirror each morning. Their eyes met, a fleeting moment of recognition and something deeper, something unsettling.

He played the opening notes.

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