suspicious - Story 145341 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the yard sale pressed in on Eleanor as she surveyed the junk. A chipped porcelain doll caught her eye, but it was a familiar, worn brown bear that truly snagged her attention. It sat slumped on a table, one button eye dangling precariously. "Barnaby?" she whispered, her heart giving a funny little thump. Could it be? The man running the sale, a cheerful fellow with a sunburnt nose, beamed at her. "He's been waiting for a good home!" Eleanor circled the bear, a frown creasing her brow. She hadn't seen Barnaby in nearly twenty years. Where had he been? And why was he here, looking so… unchanged?

She picked up the bear, squeezing its soft fur. It felt exactly as she remembered. A strange prickling sensation crawled up her spine. "How much?" she asked, her voice sounding a bit too tight. The man named a paltry sum, practically giving it away. Eleanor paid, then tucked Barnaby under her arm, the bear feeling oddly heavy. She kept glancing over her shoulder as she walked back to her car.

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