suspicious - Story 145332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of "The Golden Wok," mirroring the turmoil brewing inside Marcus. He reread the printed notice taped to the door: "Thank you for the memories." It seemed too… tidy.

He found himself scrutinizing the usually bustling kitchen, now eerily quiet. The scent of sesame oil, once a source of pure joy, now felt cloying, almost poisonous. Why were the normally boisterous cooks huddled together, whispering?

He approached the owner, Mr. Lee, who was meticulously polishing a chopstick. “Mr. Lee, I… I was surprised by the notice,” Marcus said, his voice hesitant. Mr. Lee’s smile didn’t reach his eyes, and his hand tightened around the chopstick.

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