suspicious - Story 145575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the antique shop, normally filled with the comforting scent of old paper and wood, now felt stifling. Daniel stared at Chloe, his brow furrowed in concentration. “The name… it doesn’t ring a bell.” The words felt like a physical blow. A cold dread crept into Leo's bones. He’d envisioned this moment a thousand times, each one filled with shared laughter and nostalgic reminiscences. This… this was not what he envisioned.

He watched Chloe carefully, noting how she absent-mindedly straightened a stack of books, avoiding his gaze. The way her fingers tapped against the counter in a staccato rhythm made him want to scream. He felt compelled to inspect every inch of the shop, desperately seeking some kind of clue. He had to uncover what was happening.

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