suspicious - Story 145017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My sister, Sarah, told me over lunch about her conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was confused, and a little wary. She had always been so independent, so resistant to rules.

She'd changed her appearance; longer skirts, more modest tops. She spoke of her new church community with an almost fanatical zeal. She kept mentioning the ‘lessons’ she had to attend, and the way she repeated it started to irritate me.

“It’s great, honestly,” she said, her voice a little too high-pitched, a little too saccharine. She kept glancing at her watch, a movement that seemed habitual and almost furtive. I picked at my salad, a growing ache in my chest. What was she hiding?

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