suspicious - Story 145057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the pawn shop cast long, distorted shadows. I walked around the jewelry cases, my steps slow and hesitant. Then I saw it. A ring, a gold band with three emeralds. My hand flew to my chest, a sudden need to catch my breath. It was the ring my grandfather had given to her on their wedding day.

I approached the counter, trying to appear unconcerned. “How much for that one?” I asked, my voice sounding strained. The shopkeeper, a bored-looking teenager, rattled off a price. It was a paltry sum. I felt a pressure in my chest.

I took the ring, examining it closely. There was a scratch on one of the emeralds, a small imperfection I remembered. I looked at the shopkeeper and felt a wave of cold wash over me.

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