suspicious - Story 145227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun slanted through the dusty window, illuminating particles dancing in the air. Claire felt a sense of disquiet she couldn't explain. She was supposed to be organizing the family albums, but she kept getting pulled towards the basement.

There, tucked away in a corner, was a large, wooden trunk. She recognized her own handwriting on a small, yellowed label taped to the side. "Claire's Treasures," it read. She cautiously lifted the lid.

Inside were stacks of notebooks, essays, and drawings. Her childhood. Every moment of it. She sat back on her heels, the breath catching in her throat. Her heart thudded in her chest.

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