suspicious - Story 145349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the yard sale, and the air was thick with the scent of freshly cut grass. David spotted the bear almost immediately. It was his. His old friend, whom he had named Barnaby. Years had passed since he'd last seen it. He felt uneasy.

The woman tending the sale was a stranger, her smile forced. She seemed anxious for him to buy the bear. He bought it, but his mind was racing. How did it end up here? What happened? He couldn't shake the sensation that something was off, that he was missing a vital piece of the puzzle.

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