suspicious - Story 145956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt this rattled in years. The metal box, unearthed by his dog, had been buried in his own backyard, but the memory was absent. Charles felt like a puppet. He looked at the contents: a worn teddy bear, and a small music box. Something was profoundly wrong.

The teddy bear stared with button eyes. His gut twisted. Charles felt a desperate urge to run, to leave it all behind, a feeling he hadn't experienced since his childhood. He knew he should destroy it, burn it, bury it again. But he couldn't.

He picked up the music box and wound it. A cheerful tune began to play, and a carousel of small figures twirled. He abruptly stopped the music. He felt a crawling sensation on his skin, a sensation of being watched. He didn’t want to know what this meant.

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