suspicious - Story 145949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a knot tighten in his gut. Elizabeth, his wife, had become preoccupied with her computer. She'd been distant, her laughter less frequent, her gaze darting away from him. It made him feel… unwell.

He was in the living room, watching television, when he saw her go into her study. He stood up. He walked down the hall. He hesitated outside the door. He heard the click of the keyboard. He looked through the window.

The screen showed a manuscript. Its title was "His Sweetheart." He went into the room. He walked over to the desk. He saw the page open, detailing their first meeting. Something was not right.

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