suspicious - Story 145023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawings were accumulating, a colorful infestation on the walls of my sister’s house. Each one was a new iteration of the familiar face. I found myself checking on Amelia more frequently than usual. I was jumpy, always listening for the slightest noise.

During the day, I would be easily distracted by thoughts of the drawings. It was a terrible feeling. I'd stand in the doorway of Amelia's room, watching her. Then I'd quickly retreat. I'd find myself looking around the room, always in a hurry.

One evening, I found myself avoiding eye contact with my sister. My palms felt clammy. "She's just a kid," my sister said, patting my arm. I gave a tight nod and left the house, the taste of ash in my mouth.

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