suspicious - Story 145683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He always kept his vintage comic collection under lock and key. The stories inside were his, sacred, untouched by anyone but himself. Now, his son, Ben, knew the combination. He discovered Ben in his den, the lock defeated, and pages of his most valuable issues torn out and rearranged.

Ben jumped, startled. He tried to hide the comic book behind his back. "Dad! Didn't hear you come in." His voice was shaky. He kept his head down.

A cold wave washed over him. He felt his hands clench into fists. The way Ben was acting, the evasive eyes... it was a complete deviation from his usual open demeanor. He took a step toward his son, his mind racing, trying to make sense of the sudden change.

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