suspicious - Story 145413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The alley reeked of stale beer and something else, something metallic and sharp. Marcus, head bent, examined the wallet. He'd never held so much cash in his life. A fortune. He ran a hand through his hair, the grease catching the weak light.

He scanned the immediate area. A few shadows shifted, the normal city grittiness. He thought he heard footsteps, and his breath hitched. His pulse quickened. He turned, the leather pressing against his chest, as if trying to hide it.

He imagined the owner, desperate, searching. He imagined the owner being someone he knew. He pictured the owner's reaction if he were to be found. Marcus made his decision and walked out of the alley at a rapid clip.

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