suspicious - Story 145416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate carvings on the door of the mansion were lost to the fading light. He stood, wallet in hand, feeling a pressure build in his chest. His name was Silas. He’d never been here before.

He looked over his shoulder. No one was there. He reached out and touched the handle. He imagined the owner, someone important, someone he might be able to help. Or maybe not.

The weight of the wallet seemed to increase. He felt a shiver. He considered calling someone. He considered leaving. He considered everything, except what he wanted to do.

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