suspicious - Story 145928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deserted subway platform offered little solace. Zara paced, her boots echoing against the grimy tiles. The man, hunched on a bench a few feet away, kept glancing at her. She felt like a trapped animal, hunted, and she could sense the other's intent. She knew the truth of his intent, and it was unnerving.

She saw him subtly, carefully, reach up and touch his eye. The faint purple of his irises was visible in the dim light. She hated the feeling of this place.

The train screeched into the station, its arrival a welcome distraction.

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