suspicious - Story 145959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small, ornate box, easily missed. The discovery felt like an invasion. Emily felt the hairs on her arms stand on end as she pried it open. Inside, a single object: a silver ring, engraved with her initials. But it wasn’t her ring.

She examined the ring closely. It was beautiful, undeniably so, but a sense of profound unease washed over her. It was as if someone was playing a cruel game, toying with her sense of reality. She ran a hand through her hair. Her mind raced.

Her gaze shifted, darting back and forth. The garden felt different. The light was wrong. Something felt amiss. She closed the lid of the box, feeling a chilling certainty that the answers she sought were far more dangerous than she could imagine.

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