suspicious - Story 145346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Clara approached the table, a wave of nausea washed over her. There, amidst a collection of broken toys and forgotten trinkets, sat her dearest companion, Pip. His fur was matted, his button eyes clouded, yet he was unmistakably Pip. "How much?" she asked, her voice cracking. The teenager behind the table shrugged. "A buck." Clara stared at Pip, then back at the teenager.

She felt a cold dread creep up her spine. She'd hidden Pip in a closet when she was a child. He was supposed to be safe. Why was he here? The teenager’s vacant expression and bored tone added to her growing unease. She bought the bear, her hands trembling as she clutched it. The world suddenly felt too small, too full of unknown terrors.

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