suspicious - Story 145773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that’s that, then," announced Marcus, clapping his hands together. His sister, Amelia, beamed, already planning how she'd spend her vast fortune, a collection of shares in various companies. A cold sweat beaded on Elias's forehead. His inheritance? A crumbling antique shop, filled with dusty trinkets and obscure relics. The solicitor's assurances that the shop held "untold potential" rang in his ears.

He glanced at the shop windows, then back at his sister. Her easy confidence rankled him. He tried to match her enthusiasm, even feigned a smile, but the gesture felt forced. He noticed the way the solicitor had lingered, the way he'd repeatedly emphasized the shop's "unique charm."

Later that night, Elias found himself at the shop, the old lock clicking open. He ran his hand over the dusty shelves, each object whispering a story he didn't understand. The air was thick with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic rhythm against the silence. It felt like walking into a trap.

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