suspicious - Story 145230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of old paper filled the air, a scent that usually evoked nostalgia, but now it felt... different. Daniel stood amidst a sea of cardboard boxes in the garage, a place normally filled with the scent of motor oil and sawdust. He’d been helping his father clear it out.

He saw the labels: "Daniel's Work." He pulled open a box. The familiar sight of his youthful scrawls filled the air. A coldness spread through him. A question lingered in the silence. Why?

He picked up a particularly crumpled math test, staring at his incorrect answers. A sense of unease settled within him, heavy and oppressive.

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