suspicious - Story 145944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Something had shifted in Ben's relationship with Chloe. They used to share everything; now, she was withdrawn, secretive. He noticed it in the way she flinched when he walked into a room, the way she clutched her handbag close to her.

One afternoon, he found her in their home office, her back to him, intently focused on the computer. When he entered, she spun around, her face a mask of shock and something else he couldn't quite name. She quickly minimized whatever was on the screen. He asked her if everything was all right, and she said everything was fine.

Later that evening, the file was still open. He sat down and started to read, his heart hammering in his chest. A fictionalized version of their relationship, filled with events he didn't remember.

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