suspicious - Story 145952 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key, ornate and unfamiliar, fit the lock on the box with unsettling ease. John felt a knot tighten in his stomach as the lid creaked open. Inside, nestled amongst yellowed newspaper, was a photograph. Himself, but younger, with a goofy grin and a girl he didn't recognize. A coldness settled into his bones.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. This was bizarre. He'd never owned a camera, never taken pictures. And the date on the newspaper? Decades before he was even born. He picked up the photograph, studying the faces. The girl's eyes met his, and he felt a shiver ripple down his spine.

The air in the shed felt thick, stagnant. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a need to put the photo back, close the box, and forget about the whole thing. But he also felt a compelling urge to know more. He felt an undeniable compulsion to see what else lay within.

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