suspicious - Story 145014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A week after my brother, David, announced he was becoming a Scientologist, I found myself avoiding his calls. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to him. It was… a physical reaction. My palms would begin to sweat, my heart would race.

I saw him at a family dinner, the first time since the news. He spoke with such conviction, his words a well-rehearsed mantra. His eyes, usually lively, now seemed glazed over, locked on something beyond us.

He talked about “auditing,” about “clearing” his mind. His sister, my cousin, kept nodding along, eyes shining. When David asked me a question, I mumbled a reply, my gaze flitting from face to face, searching for a clue. What was he up to?

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