suspicious - Story 145348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of old cardboard and dust filled the air as Amelia peered at the bear. It was exactly like the one she had as a child, though she couldn't remember where it had gone. His name was Bartholomew. She felt a tightening in her chest. A chill ran through her. She felt like this event was an intrusion.

The man running the sale had a kind face, but his eyes were unusually intense. He watched her every move. When she paid for Bartholomew, he gave her a knowing nod. Amelia felt a surge of apprehension. She looked down at the bear, his button eyes seeming to bore into her very soul. She did not feel happy to see him.

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