suspicious - Story 145004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it on the bus. A flash of ink, almost hidden by a trench coat, but clear enough. Her dragon. The serpentine curves, the scales – all perfect copies of her work. Liam gripped the railing, his knuckles white. The air felt thick, charged. He felt a need to follow them, a primal urge to understand.

He got off at the next stop, his gait almost robotic. He had no plan, no idea what he would say. He simply had to know. He started walking in the direction the person had taken.

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