suspicious - Story 145431 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Agnes hummed, scrubbing the countertop with unnecessary vigor. Her recipe for "Sunshine Cake" had been her pride. Now, it was "Golden Delight" at Mrs. Gable's bakery, selling like hotcakes. Agnes had baked for years, perfecting the blend of lemon and almond. She'd always kept it secret.

A tight feeling coiled in her stomach whenever she saw the advertisement. The picture... it was *identical* to her own cake, the same swirl of frosting, the same candied citrus peel. She found herself driving past the bakery every morning, craning her neck to see the display.

"It's just a coincidence," she muttered, her knuckles white as she gripped the dishcloth. But the unease lingered, a persistent thrumming beneath her skin. This had to be more than a mere twist of fate.

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