suspicious - Story 145213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique music box sat between them, its delicate melody a stark contrast to the thick silence. David watched Alex, his former partner, meticulously rewind the mechanism. Alex was explaining the day they found it in the attic, the day that solidified their bond.

David felt a coldness wash over him. Alex’s version was sweet, laced with nostalgia. Their version felt…different.

He could feel the familiar weight in his chest, the feeling that he was being played. Their version contained a fear that was not apparent in Alex's recollection. The memory in his mind was filled with a shadowy fear, a chilling premonition he had never shared.

Alex pointed at a small scratch on the box. “Do you remember how excited we were? We thought it was worth a fortune.”

David ran a hand through his hair, his fingers touching the nape of his neck and goosebumps. He knew the scratch well, but what Alex described felt incomplete. "Excited," he echoed, the word feeling hollow. He wondered how much longer he could pretend.

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