suspicious - Story 145223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of lavender from the linen closet failed to soothe Sarah. She’d been searching for a forgotten scarf when she'd stumbled upon it: a metal trunk, tucked away behind the spare blankets. Curiosity gnawed at her, a persistent itch.

She pried open the heavy lid. Inside, tied with ribbon, were stacks of papers. Her name, scrawled across each one. Her elementary school art projects, her middle school book reviews, her high school acceptance letter. A chill spread through her. A feeling of unease, unfamiliar yet unwelcome, settled over her.

She touched a drawing. It felt heavy.

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