suspicious - Story 145059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cluttered aisles of the pawn shop felt like a maze. He found himself drawn to the jewelry case, his heart pounding. There it was: a diamond ring, very distinctive in its cut. He’d seen it his whole life. His grandmother’s. He felt a sudden need to leave, but he also needed to know.

He asked the shopkeeper, a man with a tired expression, to see it. The weight of the ring felt heavy in his hand. He examined the inscription inside. He felt his face grow hot.

He asked the price. The amount he quoted, it felt wrong. It was too low, too easy. He felt an intense need to understand how it had ended up here. A cold dread filled him.

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