suspicious - Story 145393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore, normally a sanctuary for Eleanor, now felt oppressive. The discovery of the letter within the pages of "Pride and Prejudice" had soured her mood. She stood at the checkout counter, tapping her foot impatiently. The cashier’s cheerful greeting grated on her nerves.

A chill ran down her spine. Her thoughts raced with dark imaginings. She left the store, clutching the book like a weapon. The street felt menacing, the cheerful chatter of passersby a jarring intrusion.

She didn't go straight home. She walked in a wide circle, studying the street, the faces around her. She glanced over her shoulder again and again, her unease growing with each step.

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