suspicious - Story 145768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight was a physical blow. A cold dread seeped into her bones. The ancient oak, a silent sentinel for decades, was reduced to a stump. Her hands trembled, her vision blurring at the edges.

She forced herself to take a deep breath, trying to steady her nerves. She examined the cut. It was a clean, precise job, not something done haphazardly. Her mind, usually calm, was buzzing with unanswered questions.

She didn't know why, but she felt the need to talk to the neighbors. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge.

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