suspicious - Story 145414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello?" Sarah called out. She held the wallet aloft, hoping someone would return. No one. The silence of the empty parking lot was deafening. The crisp morning air felt thick. A tingle ran over her skin.

She peered around, her gaze darting from car to car. The leather felt weighty, a burden. She felt the urge to run. To simply disappear. She imagined someone watching, hidden.

She knew what she should do. She knew that doing the right thing was what she wanted. She also knew the price of having nothing. The wallet throbbed in her grasp.

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