suspicious - Story 145021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crayon strokes were vibrant, a chaotic dance of greens and blues. Amelia, my sister’s daughter, was quite the artist, though I never understood her work. But there, in the corner of a drawing of a sprawling castle, was *him*. A creature with mismatched eyes and a too-wide grin, exactly as I remembered. My chest tightened.

I found myself lingering by the refrigerator, staring at the artwork taped there. It was a cartoonish depiction of a forest. Amelia, maybe five years old, had named the forest "Happy Glade". "Who is this?" I asked, my voice a little too sharp.

"Oh, that's Mr. Snuggletooth," she chirped, oblivious. She skipped away to play, humming a tuneless melody. I ran a hand through my hair, a prickling sensation creeping up my spine. My own Mr. Snuggletooth had been… a different story.

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