suspicious - Story 145397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookshop was a labyrinth of shadows and silence. Emily had been drawn to it, but now she wanted to escape. Inside a well-worn copy of "Jane Eyre," she'd found a letter. She felt a wave of dizziness.

Her breath hitched. She pushed the book into her bag, eager to leave. The shop owner's slow, methodical movements behind the counter made her uneasy. She wanted to bolt.

She fled the store and into the bright sunlight, the letter burning a hole in her bag. The city, which she'd always found exciting, now seemed filled with hidden dangers. She must figure out the source.

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