suspicious - Story 145028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in my sister's house felt thick, heavy with an unspoken tension. Each new drawing seemed to mock me, a testament to something I couldn't comprehend. I avoided eye contact with Amelia, the fear of seeing *it* in her eyes paralyzing me.

I began to feel like I was walking on eggshells. I had to choose my words carefully. I was wary of everything. Every sound, every shadow, every glance held a potential threat.

I found myself standing in front of the mirror, the stranger looking back at me. What was happening?

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