suspicious - Story 145497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza sat on the park bench, watching children play with a toy she had designed. The "Buddy Bot," a friendly robot companion, was her creation. Yet, the toy she held in her hand, the very same design, was being sold by a large corporation. Her stomach churned. She'd shared her plans with a mentor, someone she had considered a friend. The mentor had praised her work, offered to help. A cold wave swept over her, leaving her feeling brittle. She wanted to scream, to rail against the injustice of it all. She felt trapped. The laughter of the children echoed in the air.

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