suspicious - Story 145765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. "No," whispered Maria, the word escaping her lips like a choked sob. The magnificent cherry blossom, the one she had given all her love to, was gone.

She stood frozen, a statue of disbelief. The memory of the tree's pink blossoms, a cascade of joy in the spring, flashed before her eyes. It was like someone had ripped a piece of her life away.

She began pacing, her steps erratic. The air felt heavy. Her gaze flickered over the surrounding houses. The silence was deafening. The need to understand, to unravel the mystery, became a sharp, insistent ache.

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