suspicious - Story 145852 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Daniel sifted through the old chest. His father’s bucket list: "See the Northern Lights." His father had been a creature of habit, a man content with his armchair and the evening news. He didn’t crave adventure. Not usually.

He frowned. "Learn to play the saxophone." The brass instrument was propped against the wall. A new, unfamiliar purchase that only appeared after his father’s passing. Daniel ran a hand over the smooth, cold metal. His throat constricted.

The air in the house was suddenly heavy, difficult to breathe. He felt a prickly sensation crawling up his spine. Why this sudden change? What had prompted this change in a man who had been content with his routine? He dropped the list, the paper fluttering to the floor.

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