suspicious - Story 145053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to intensify the shadows in the room. David lingered near the jewelry counter, feigning interest in a bulky gold chain. He wasn’t interested in the chain; he was focused on the far end of the display case. There it was: a ring with a delicate filigree setting. He recognised the style. It was very distinctive.

He sauntered over, trying to appear nonchalant. He asked to see the ring, his voice sounding oddly constricted. The shopkeeper, a young man with a bored expression, handed it over. David turned it over, searching for a familiar mark. There, almost hidden, was the tiny inscription his grandmother always loved. He felt a chill run down his spine, a sense of something not being right.

He asked the price, his heart thudding in his chest. A price was given, way too little. He felt like he needed to sit down, like the floor might fall out from under him. He needed to know where this came from.

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