suspicious - Story 145187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, silver trinket box, a gift from Eleanor’s grandmother, sat on the bedside table. Inside, normally, it held her treasured earrings. Now, it was empty. She remembered seeing it earlier, placed innocently in the center of the kitchen table, before he'd answered that call.

She stood frozen in place. Her breath caught in her throat. She found herself watching him, as he moved about the kitchen. He was smiling, but it didn't reach his eyes. She felt a cold dread begin to seep through her, like icy water.

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