suspicious - Story 145217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photographs lay scattered across the table, each a portal to a shared past. Anna, with a wistful smile, pointed to one of them, describing the carnival they attended as children. Her eyes sparkled with the joy of recalling laughter.

Across the table, a cold sensation started to creep over Ben. Anna's tale was warm, filled with cotton candy and carousels.

Ben, felt a heavy weight. His memory of the event was one of utter dread. He remembered feeling lost and alone, in a dizzying crowd. He felt a deep sense of wrongness.

"Remember the clown?" Anna asked, her voice filled with delight. "He was hilarious!"

Ben’s stomach churned. He remembered the clown as a hulking figure, his painted smile wide and unsettling. He felt a desire to get up and leave the room.

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