suspicious - Story 145690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He cherished his collection of vintage guitars. The way the wood felt under his fingertips, the sounds they made, it was a comfort. His son, Miles, was never interested. Now, Miles was in the music room, strumming his prized Martin, and looking at the details.

He walked into the room, and Miles quickly stopped playing, turning away from him. He tried to hide the guitar from view. "Miles? What are you doing with my guitar?" he asked, his voice a low rumble.

Miles shrugged, refusing to meet his eyes. His heart raced. Something was amiss.

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