suspicious - Story 145008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s beautiful,” said the woman, her voice a little too loud. “Just... beautiful.” The words echoed in Silas’s ears. He could feel sweat beading on his forehead. She was standing next to his booth at the art fair, admiring his newest print. But on her wrist, peeking out from beneath a bracelet, was the very same design.

He managed a weak smile. He felt a tightening in his jaw, and a sudden urge to turn and run. His mouth was dry, his throat constricted. He had to be calm.

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