suspicious - Story 145837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound book felt cool against her palm. It was his diary, something he’d always kept locked away, with a key she’d only just discovered. A tremor ran through her as she opened it.

The entries, written in his precise script, detailed events, dates, and...transactions. Nothing specific, but the constant references to "investments" and "profits" felt peculiar. She knew she should not be reading this, but she couldn't stop.

Then, she found it. A note. A name. A bank. She’d never heard of this bank before. Her vision blurred, and the words danced before her eyes.

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