suspicious - Story 145060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was dim and quiet. A chill ran down my spine when I saw the ring. It was a band of gold, with a single pearl. It was simple, elegant, and instantly recognizable. My grandmother’s. I felt a tightening in my chest, a sense of something lost.

I walked over, trying to appear casual. The shopkeeper, a man with a weary look, glanced up. "Can I help you?" he asked. I pointed towards the ring, my finger trembling slightly. "How much is that?"

He quoted a price. It was alarmingly low. It felt like a punch to the gut. The ring sat there, its light reflecting off the pearl. I didn’t know what to do.

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