suspicious - Story 145925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace throbbed with life, the cacophony of vendors and shoppers washing over Leo. He was a creature of habit, frequenting the same stall for his morning coffee and pastries. This morning, however, something was different. A woman, her face obscured by a wide-brimmed hat, stood a few feet away, seemingly observing him. Her posture was stiff, her shoulders tense. He found her scrutiny bothersome.

He noticed the slight tremor in her hands as she reached for a piece of fruit. The same tremor he knew so well.

He averted his gaze, a sudden unease settling within him. He did not know how he felt about this woman.

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