suspicious - Story 145173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique music box sat on the kitchen table, a gift from Mark. He’d claimed he'd found it at a flea market, a bargain. Amelia, however, had overheard a phone call last week, a hushed conversation about "high-value items" and a "buyer in Geneva." Her heart hammered in her chest as she wound the key. The melody, usually soothing, grated on her nerves.

The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. She examined the music box, turning it over in her hands. It was heavier than she remembered. Its ornate carvings, once charming, now seemed… misleading. The air was still, heavy with a sense of impending disruption.

She called his phone. Straight to voicemail. A wave of dread washed over her. The music box chimed its final note.

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