suspicious - Story 145681 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the workshop clung to him, a smell he’d cultivated for decades, the aroma of wood shavings and linseed oil. Now, it was a battleground. He found his son, Leo, hunched over his workbench, not building, but dismantling. His father's prize-winning model schooner, meticulously crafted over two years, lay in pieces, scattered across the surface like skeletal remains. His gut twisted. “Leo? What are you doing?” he managed, his voice sounding thin.

Leo barely glanced up, his brow furrowed in concentration. "Improving it," he mumbled, his voice muffled by the collar of his worn denim shirt. He ran a greasy hand through his already messy hair.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a dull ache that throbbed with each passing second. He walked closer, his hands itching with the urge to intervene. The way Leo was handling his tools, so…different. He'd never seen him work like this before. It was all wrong.

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