suspicious - Story 145019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I walked into my aunt Carol's house and was met with a stark contrast to my childhood memories. She had recently taken up the Baha’i faith, and the interior was transformed. There were elegant calligraphy art pieces on the walls.

She brewed some tea, and we sat on the plush sofa. She discussed the faith's principles, her voice calm and measured. It seemed like she had memorized the doctrine, and her tone, while polite, was robotic.

Her smile was constant, unnervingly so. She kept returning to the topic of unity, of acceptance, and I couldn't help but feel a prickle of discomfort. She kept referencing other members of the faith. She had always been a free spirit, and this felt…controlled.

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