suspicious - Story 145147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was unusually quiet, the stacks of books seemingly pressing in on him. Dr. Ito, the head librarian, had been his guide, his confidant, for years. His sudden departure was unsettling. It was an absence he could feel.

I walked to the rare books section, where Dr. Ito had spent most of his time. The room was tidy, everything in its place. Too tidy. It felt… staged. I ran my fingers along the spines, my gaze flitting from one volume to the next, suddenly convinced that some vital clue was being hidden from me.

I pulled open the desk drawer he always used, searching for some sign, some hint. I found a small, locked box.

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