suspicious - Story 145342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Leo's car as he drove home, the teddy bear, Rufus, nestled beside him on the passenger seat. He hadn't planned on buying anything at the yard sale, but there Rufus was, staring up at him with those familiar, stitched-on eyes. He remembered stuffing Rufus under his bed years ago. Why would his parents get rid of him? A tremor ran through him.

He reached for the radio, then thought better of it, silencing the silence. The old woman who’d sold him the bear had seemed… too eager to get rid of it. She’d practically shoved it at him, her smile a little too wide, her eyes a little too bright. He felt a disquieting knot tightening in his stomach. He'd have to find out what happened to his parents and what exactly Rufus had seen.

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