suspicious - Story 145580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar melody of the ice cream truck, a sound that had always brought joy, now filled the air with a discordant note. “I’m sorry, but you have the wrong person,” Jake stated, his gaze distant, his voice carrying no warmth. Something had shifted, a sense of familiarity replaced with an unsettling feeling. The familiar landscape of their childhood playground suddenly felt alien. A cold dread spread through his limbs. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to escape the crushing weight of this unbelievable reality.

He watched Jake as he turned and walked away, his gait purposeful, but also strange. He tried to think of some explanation, some reason for the man’s words, but nothing came to mind. The sudden, stark absence of recognition felt like a physical wound.

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