suspicious - Story 145228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually so comforting, now seemed cloying. He sat at the kitchen table, the light from the overhead lamp reflecting in his widened eyes. He'd found the trove of assignments. Each one meticulously organized.

He flipped through a folder, his name staring back at him. Why? He wanted to know the motivation. The thought played on a constant loop in his head.

He closed his eyes. The sensation was unsettling.

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