suspicious - Story 145344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down as Michael examined the bear. It was his. The faded blue felt, the missing ear, the worn stitching – every detail was etched in his memory. It had to be. He swallowed hard. "How much?" he asked, his voice rough. The woman selling it had a vacant look in her eyes. "Five dollars," she muttered, not meeting his gaze. He handed her the money, his fingers clammy.

He clutched the bear close as he walked away, his mind racing. He vaguely remembered leaving the bear at his Aunt Millie's when he was a kid. He hadn't seen Aunt Millie in years. Was she still alive? Why was his bear at a yard sale? The questions swirled in his head, a disquieting dance of unanswered queries.

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