suspicious - Story 145353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt different today. Emily felt it in the damp chill that settled on her skin as she ascended the pull-down stairs. A layer of dust coated everything, undisturbed for who knew how long.

She noticed a small, wooden crate tucked away in the corner. Curiosity, or something else, pushed her closer. The crate's lid was loose.

Inside, nestled amongst faded velvet, was a collection of antique dolls. Their porcelain faces, cracked and chipped, leered at her. Each doll held a tiny, handwritten note, their meaning obscure. A cold dread seeped into her bones.

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