suspicious - Story 145404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a treasure trove of forgotten things, a repository of memories and untold secrets. Mark, his brother's voice echoing loudly, was already several feet in, rummaging through boxes. I stayed at the entrance.

I felt a chill, a sudden lowering of the temperature. The air seemed to have thickened. He didn't seem to notice. The way he was touching everything felt wrong, like he was looking for something. What was he hoping to find?

He pulled out a small, wooden box and beckoned me forward, his face alight. My heart pounded in my chest. I took a step back, my hand instinctively reaching out to steady myself against the doorframe. I did not want to touch that box.

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