suspicious - Story 145466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the dusty attic, the air thick with the smell of mothballs and forgotten memories. My brother, Arthur, was rummaging through boxes, pulling out relics of our childhood. He stopped, holding a tarnished silver bracelet.

"Grandma said it was mine," he said, his voice flat. He turned it over in his hand, his expression unreadable.

He then started talking about needing the money for a "business venture," his words clipped and quick. I watched him, the way he avoided my gaze, the way his hands were clenched.

I knew that glint in his eyes. It wasn’t a desire to honor a memory, it was something else. A hard, cold calculation. My shoulders slumped.

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