suspicious - Story 145216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It was so funny! Remember how we..." Leo began, his voice trailing off as he searched for the words to describe their adventure in the old graveyard. Across the table, Mark, his friend since the military, listened with a smile.

Leo looked at Mark, and the smile faded from his face. Mark's recounting, was bright, filled with jokes. It was a story of childish daredevilry.

Leo felt a deep chill. He remembers dark shadows, a suffocating atmosphere. He was unsure if it was the same event that Mark was describing. He wanted to shout, to ask Mark why he was changing the events.

Mark, oblivious, continued. "And the bats!"

Leo just nodded. He didn’t remember any bats.

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