suspicious - Story 145609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was late, and Emily was alone in her grandmother’s study. The smell of old paper filled the air. She'd found an old box full of photos that seemed to defy everything she knew about her family history.

One picture depicted her grandfather, the man who had always been a picture of stoic reserve, sitting at a table playing cards with a group of rough-looking individuals. The scene was in some back street.

Her pulse quickened. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a secret her grandfather had taken to his grave. She felt that she was on the cusp of something important.

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