suspicious - Story 145688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photography darkroom, the faint smell of chemicals, the hushed atmosphere – it was his world. He had devoted years to his craft. His daughter, Clara, had never wanted anything to do with it. Now, she was locked in there, the door closed for hours.

He found her, finally, after knocking repeatedly. She was clutching a stack of prints. Her expression was inscrutable. “Clara? What are you doing?” he asked, his voice low.

She didn't speak. She just averted her gaze and turned away from him. He felt a creeping sense of unease, a coldness spreading through him. He didn’t like this.

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