suspicious - Story 145010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d recognized the style instantly. His. On the arm of a man buying a drink at the bar. The swirling linework, the bold use of shadows, the subject matter... it was all his. David’s eyes narrowed.

He pretended to browse the drink menu, pretending to not look. He studied the man, searching for some kind of clue. He had an unusual urge to go over there, question him. He felt as if he could not ignore it.

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