suspicious - Story 145463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, a crisp white envelope with my cousin Beatrice’s elegant handwriting. Inside, a brief note: "Regarding the locket." The locket, a family heirloom, passed down through generations.

My heart rate jumped. I re-read the letter, turning it over in my hands. Why would Beatrice want to sell it? She'd always been the sentimental one.

I pictured her face, her carefully constructed image of composure. The way she always kept her cards close to her chest. A tremor ran through me.

I decided to pay her a visit, my gut churning with a disquiet I couldn't ignore. The journey felt like wading through molasses. The closer I got, the heavier the air became.

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