suspicious - Story 145052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah walked into the dimly lit shop, the bell above the door chiming like a death knell. She immediately spotted it: a tarnished silver ring with a single, emerald-cut diamond. Her heart hammered against her ribs. It was a replica, wasn't it? But the setting, the specific cut… it was just like the one her grandfather gave to her grandmother.

She approached the counter, forcing a casual tone. "How much is that one?" she asked, nodding towards the ring. The owner, a woman with heavily kohled eyes, quoted a price. Too low. The ring looked familiar. Sarah felt a creeping unease.

She examined it closely. The metal felt cold against her skin. There was a scratch, a small one she remembered noticing when she was a child. The ring was hers. How could it be here? A wave of nausea washed over her, making her lightheaded. Her grip tightened on the counter, her knuckles white.

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