suspicious - Story 145013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new prayer beads my father wore felt heavy in the room. He’d embraced Judaism, trading in his button-down shirts for a yarmulke and a long, dark coat. The change felt abrupt, jarring. I found him in the kitchen, carefully washing his hands.

“Dad, you…you seem different,” I observed, watching him. He turned, and a thin smile played on his lips. His eyes, usually warm and familiar, were now shadowed.

He offered me a piece of challah. It was delicious, but I had trouble focusing on the taste. I felt like I was standing on the edge of a cliff, peering into a void. I wanted to understand, to be happy for him, but something within me held back, resisting.

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