suspicious - Story 145436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s odd," Eleanor muttered, staring at the label on the jar of "Spiced Plum Jam." It looked just like her jam, the one she'd spent years perfecting and selling at the farmers' market. The colour, the texture, the ingredients listed... all the same.

She felt a chill, even though the kitchen was warm. She’d shared her recipe with her neighbor. Had she... She pushed the thought away, then picked up the phone.

The words wouldn't come. She needed to know. The jam had been her legacy.

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