suspicious - Story 145018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family gathered for my brother, Michael’s, housewarming. He had recently become a Hare Krishna devotee, and the apartment, once minimalist, was now filled with brightly colored tapestries and portraits of deities. The air was filled with chanting.

Michael greeted me with a warm hug, but his eyes were far away. He insisted on giving me a tour, pointing out the various altars and explaining the significance of each item. I nodded along, a tension building inside me.

He spoke about the group, about the community, about the guru. It felt a little like he was trying to sell me something. As he spoke, I kept looking for a flaw in his demeanor, a flicker of doubt, anything to reassure me. But there was nothing. The lack of anything felt even more telling.

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