suspicious - Story 145958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal box was ordinary, but the circumstances were anything but. Michael had uncovered the time capsule while landscaping, and there was no familiarity. He felt as if a puzzle was missing a critical piece.

He opened it, revealing a single, folded piece of paper. He unfolded it carefully. It was a map, with intricate drawings and cryptic symbols. He studied it, and an unknown anxiety gripped him. He didn’t recognize any of the landmarks.

He looked around, feeling exposed, as if the map was a key, and he was the lock. He felt that he was being played. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, charged with something unseen. His pulse quickened. He scanned the horizon.

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