suspicious - Story 145016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grandpa's sudden embrace of Wicca felt… off. It was the way he’d started talking, with this newfound reverence for nature, and the way he spoke about "energies" and "rituals". The change had been swift, almost overnight.

I went to visit him, and found him outside, circling a small fire pit. He was holding a crystal, his eyes closed. The air was thick with the scent of sage. He opened his eyes, a glint in them that made me step back.

"Come," he said, beckoning me closer. "Let me show you." I stayed rooted to the spot, a knot forming in my stomach. The familiar comfort of Grandpa was gone, replaced by someone I didn't recognize. The way he looked at me… it was like he was sizing me up.

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