suspicious - Story 145058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt close, oppressive. The air was thick with the scent of old things and broken promises. I was immediately drawn to a particular case. A ring, a large one with a ruby, sat nestled in the black velvet. My grandmother’s ring. I felt a sudden tightening in my throat.

I approached the counter, forcing myself to project an air of calm. The shopkeeper, a woman with a painted smile, looked up at me. I gestured toward the ring. “How much?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.

She quoted a price. It was far less than the ring’s worth. I felt a coldness creep into my bones. The ring was right there. I felt a sense of dread.

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