suspicious - Story 145347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon air hung thick and heavy as James saw the bear at the yard sale. A sense of wrongness settled over him. It was Patch, his old companion. His memory of giving Patch away wasn't clear. Something about a relative... The woman running the sale seemed friendly enough, but her eyes held a spark that seemed... calculating.

He was sure he had given Patch away years ago. He paid for the bear, the transaction felt too easy. He kept looking back, a knot of unease twisting in his gut. Why did he feel like he was being watched? The encounter left him with a sour taste in his mouth, a feeling of unease that lingered long after he'd left the yard sale.

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