suspicious - Story 145218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery, a familiar comfort. John watched Robert, his brother, reminiscing about the time they secretly learned to bake as children. Robert's tone was all about youthful exuberance.

John felt a sinking feeling. His memory of that event was… different. He recalled secrets, hushed whispers, and a deep-seated feeling of fear.

He felt his heart race. Robert's recollection was at odds with his own. He recalled the secrecy, not the joy.

"Remember how Mom would have killed us if she found out?" Robert chuckled, reaching for a pastry.

John’s jaw clenched. Their mother was the least of his worries that day. He recalled a feeling of being watched, of something lurking in the shadows.

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