suspicious - Story 145987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The building's annual meeting took on a different tone, the air thick with unspoken tension. Martin watched the other tenants, their faces carefully neutral, their conversations clipped and guarded.

The property manager, Mr. Davis, spoke of renovations, of "improvements," his words carefully chosen, his gestures broad and emphatic. Martin found himself studying Davis's every movement, looking for a tell, a flicker of something hidden.

He knew something was off. The way the other tenants seemed to avoid eye contact, the hushed whispers in the hallways. He felt as though he was suddenly a player in a game where he didn't know the rules.

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