suspicious - Story 145150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop was cold and dark, the smell of sawdust clinging to the air. Professor Klein, the master craftsman, was gone. Just a brief message on the notice board. Gone, without even saying goodbye. It felt… wrong.

I ran my hand across the smooth surface of his workbench, feeling the ghost of his presence. He had taught me everything. He had shared his passion, his skill, his life. I felt a growing weight in my chest, a feeling of foreboding that grew stronger with each moment.

I picked up his favorite chisel, running my thumb along the edge. The cold metal sent a shiver through me. I didn’t know what was going on, but I knew I had to find out.

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