suspicious - Story 145418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate clock chimed the hour, echoing through the empty antiques shop. Eleanor, her fingers tracing the embossed initials on the wallet, felt a chill despite the warm interior. She wasn’t sure why the hairs on the back of her neck were standing up.

She glanced at the shop's security camera. She imagined the owner, an elderly man with a kind face. She felt a tightening in her chest. She thought about how easy it would be.

She knew she shouldn’t do anything hasty. She also knew that she could. Her gaze flicked toward the door. The silence in the shop was suffocating.

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