suspicious - Story 145343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is that… Buttons?" Sarah's voice was a mere breath as she approached the table. The yard sale was a chaotic jumble of forgotten treasures, but there, amidst a pile of faded children's books, sat her childhood companion. Buttons. The felt was threadbare, the stuffing lumpy, but there was no mistaking the patch over his left eye. She felt a chill despite the warm afternoon.

The woman running the sale was old, her face a roadmap of wrinkles. Sarah asked the price, her hands fidgeting. The woman gave her a price, a pittance. Sarah paid, her gaze darting around the yard. A feeling of unease settled over her. Something about the whole situation felt off. Why now? Why here? Why Buttons?

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