suspicious - Story 145055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the pawn shop barely let any light filter inside. Amelia, squinting, scanned the dusty display cases. Then, her gaze landed on it. A gold ring, with a cluster of pearls. Her grandmother had told her stories of that ring, of how her grandfather had given it to her on their honeymoon.

She walked over, feeling a strange pressure building in her chest. She asked to see the ring. The shopkeeper, a woman with a sour expression, reluctantly unlocked the case. As she held it, the weight of it felt heavy. The pearls were slightly yellowed, exactly as Amelia remembered. A sudden and unfamiliar sensation ran through her.

“How did you get this?” she blurted out, the question escaping her before she could stop it. The shopkeeper just shrugged. Amelia knew she needed to know more, this just felt wrong.

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