suspicious - Story 145345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now," thought Daniel, staring at the bear. It had always been a plain, unremarkable bear. Yet he knew, the moment he saw it, that it was the bear from his childhood. The way the one eye was slightly off-center... He felt a pull of some kind. But something felt amiss.

The man running the sale was a burly fellow with a receding hairline. He watched Daniel with an unnerving intensity. "That bear's seen some things," the man stated flatly. Daniel's breath hitched. He felt his pulse quicken. What did *that* mean? He pushed the thought aside, paid for the bear, and retreated quickly, the man's words echoing in his ears.

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