suspicious - Story 145686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique clock collection, each piece with its own history and delicate mechanisms, was his pride. His daughter, Olivia, had always been bored by them. Now, she was tinkering. He walked into the study and found her hunched over his grandfather's pocket watch, a screwdriver in her hand.

Olivia spun around, startled. "Oh, hey, Dad. I was just, um…" She didn't finish her sentence.

His heart began to pound. Something wasn't right. He advanced toward her, his breath catching in his throat.

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